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Editor’s Note// Despite the flurry of fairy floss and candy canes in the Katy Perry: Part Of Me documentary, there’s one person you can be sure wasn’t left with a sweet taste in their mouth during its triumphant finale. Although widely acclaimed by reviewers, little has been said about the 2012 film’s extraordinarily manipulative tactics. With their marriage crumbling as the cameras rolled, a cunning plot contrivance has Perry’s former husband Russell Brand devolving into the mute villain of the piece. Despite being a 3D film, Part Of Me is impressively one-sided; the Perry perspective ensures the audience is given little option but to team with the teary singer. What should have remained an emotionally-wrenching personal issue between a husband and wife is sadly turned into something far more upsetting: an exploitative propaganda campaign within a lucrative commercial venture. The tact that UK comedian and actor Brand has used in the wake of this personal slight reflects his enlightened approach to life since overcoming heroin addiction a decade ago, but his matrimonial cheek-turning hasn’t left him bereft of ribald tales. Balanced between the profane and profound, Brand is just as at home dispatching cultured, Wildean insight as grubby tales of sexual escapades. More like Dutch liquorice than fairy floss, Brand’s debut comedy performance in Adelaide will counteract the sugar with a liberal dose of saltiness. No exaggeration – all of this time was worth the waiting.

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Hear him preview songs from a new album recorded in LA with members of Tom Waits’ band when he hits Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel on Sat Nov 24.

Sailing into Currie St’s Ed Castle armed with their mesmerising new mini album, To You, to play with Kaurna Cronin and We Do This on Sat Nov 24.

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See the US funk, soul, blues and jazz pianist at the Governor Hindmarsh with The Streamliners on Thu Nov 22.

Speeding along this week... MITZI – coming all the way from Brisbane to play their disco-influenced indie pop at Rocket Bar on Fri Nov 23.

PAUL DI’ANNO – Catch the former Iron Maiden vocalist at Fowler’s Live on Sun Nov 25 with Blaze Bayley (also once of Iron Maiden) as well as locals Octanic and Matterhorn.

JEFF MARTIN – be sure to catch the leader of The Tea Party when the singer undertakes a low-key gig at Jive on Fri Nov 23.

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A Chick Called Wanda

Get Off The Grass Kikuyu – not just a perennial ground-hugging grass, but also a micropop project by Melbourne artist Sez Wilks. In small-scale lo-fi style, Sez loops warm vocals and wartime diva harmonies with the fuzzy built in beats and bright tones of an Italian combo organ. Influenced by vintage organs, vintage organs, Coco Rosie, Rainbow

Arabia, Dick Bruna, shouting into a piano with the sustain pedal down, barefoot sprinting, parlour games and today, Kikuyu might just grow on you when she plays songs from her album Hunter Gathered at the Wheatsheaf on Sun Jan 27 with Melbourne-via-Portland, Oregon songwriter Super XX Man.

Adele calls Wanda Jackson her rockabilly Etta James, saying she’s so brilliant that Rollin’ In The Deep wouldn’t exist without her. Bob Dylan says she’s an atomic bomb in lipstick and the queen of rockabilly. Jack White loves her so much that he produced her 2011 album The Party Ain’t Over. She’s now working on her 31st studio album Unfinished Business with Justin Townes Earle and looking back on a 50-year career that has produced hits across country, rockabilly, pop and rock, from Tears Will Be the Chaser For Your Wine to Fujiyama Mama, Heart Trouble and I Remember Elvis. She’s such a legend that she once called Elvis a friend – don’t miss it when she plays a Bluesfest side-show at the Governor Hindmarsh on Tue Mar 19. Tickets: bluesfesttouring.com.au.

Sydney band BREAKING ORBIT aim to close the gap between alternative and progressive rock with a mix of eclectic soundscapes, driving polyrhythms, euphoric vocal melodies, tribal drum breakdowns and heavy grooves. Hear their debut album The Time Traveller when they play Enigma on Fri Dec 14.

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Who: Woollen Kits with Alpha Beta Fox and Bruff Superior / Where: The Metro / When: Sat Dec 8

Woollen Ways There are three guys in Woollen Kits – Tom, Tom and another guy who’s not called Tom. He’s called Leon and like the other guys, he’s from Melbourne and plays garage pop punk influenced by The Velvet Underground, The Monkees, The Cars and Bruce Springsteen. Blog Speak Into My Good

Eye probably sums up the band best with this review of their new album Four Girls: “Everything about Woollen Kits is perfectly old school. They are guys singing about girls. They are band practice in your friend’s garage. They are cold pizza in greasy boxes and your favourite high school hoodie with holes in the sleeves. They are meeting up at the same bar every Friday night because you really don’t have anything else to do, but you love it anyway.”

From the new school all the way back to the old school, the Clipsal 500 has you covered. They’ve announced a huge line-up of music for the big race weekend, with the Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Illy and Pez taking to the stage on Fri Mar 1, The Angels and Ian Moss on Sat Mar 2 and KISS and Motley Crue on Sun Mar 3. Get in early to support local music each night with support acts from Music SA’s Bands On Track. Tickets: clipsal500.com.au.

Three out of four ain’t bad at all – Jason, Aaron and Dennis all take turns on the lead mic for Electric Empire (and newest member Simon doesn’t do too bad at all on the bass). The Melbourne band play modern soul that has taken them from Glastonbury to Royal Albert Hall, full houses from Japan to France and even shows in Kazakhstan. They return to Australia after another sell-out tour of Japan, playing songs from their band new EP Changin’. “We’re opening our minds to mixing a bit of a fresher, wider sound,” Aaron says. “It’s 2012 and we’re making a record with all that history, but created with a modern feel.” As for the singing thing, Aaron says “it’s a democratic process which has a life of its own”. “The song tends to find the singer,” he says. “We know each other’s voices. And more often than not, we know who the song belongs to.”

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You Handsome Devil The Kings Arms, Poland St, Soho, 2002: smack addict Russell Brand is masturbating a gay man in a toilet cubicle for his shock doc series Re:Brand. Olympic Stadium, London, August 2012: a colourful highlight of the Olympics Closing Ceremony, Russell Brand sings The Beatles’ I Am The Walrus to an estimated global audience of 750 million. How on earth did this former junkie become England’s most endearing scamp? ince kicking his heroin habit almost a decade ago, the 37-yearold comic rogue from Essex has proven a charming and witty superstar. After incisive and controversial hosting roles in his homeland, Hollywood sat up and took notice of this lanky Dickensian rascal following his appearance in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. American pop stars and filmgoers alike have since fallen for his waggish magnetism, with even critically derided flicks such as last year’s Hop (where Brand voiced a CGI Easter Bunny) proving wildly popular. When Rip It Up was travelling between Samoan islands via ferry last month, Hop was shown on the TV screen as onboard entertainment. After an 80-minute journey the ferry docked, but 150 Samoans transfixed by the broadcast refused to disembark until they’d seen the ending. “This is a story I’ve heard many times,” Brand suggests. “People all over the world are transfixed to the movie Hop. Babies are going unfed, graves untended, jobs undone, all so that people can watch Hop. It’s not just Samoa – it’s the whole planet. Hop is our moon landing. “It’s extraordinary to hear that though, such is the incessant wonder of doing this for a living – you exist in all sorts of places. Being

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watched on a ferry between Samoan islands is something I never thought I’d say. That’s good for my self-confidence – thank you.” Far from the effervescent lothario who lights up television, radio and film studios with his energetic tumble of thoughts, an interview with Brand away from the fanfare finds him oddly meek and introspective. Perhaps it’s the fatigue of answering incessant questions about his sex life or dealing with the media speculation in the wake of his divorce from Katy Perry? Either way, Brand’s reserved personality is at odds with the character who’s chronicled incestuous escapades, accidental bestiality and sex with tearfully reticent Turkish prostitutes in his autobiographies My Booky Wook and My Booky Wook 2: This Time It’s Personal. Released in 2010, My Booky Wook 2 finishes with a strikingly-penned last paragraph devoted to Brand’s new wife. After hundreds of pages of unnervingly revealing revelations, what is left unsaid in the final lines proves more poignant than all his other admissions put together. It’s hard to consolidate that this uncompromising love for his Californian girl was snuffed out within 12 months, with the final days of the partnership exposed in this year’s documentary Katy Perry: Part Of Me. Despite Perry’s emotionally turbulent film implicating Brand as the bad guy in the matrimonial implosion, the comedian has held his tongue with honour and civility since the split. After the raw emotions presented in Part Of Me, will My Booky Wook 3 finally see Brand unleash vengeance and venom? “No, there ain’t none. I don’t read the papers no more and it don’t make no difference to me - I’m really happy. For me, everything is perfect and as it will be.” At the same time Katy Perry: Part Of Me was opening in cinemas across the globe, Brand was part of the top secret preparations for the London Olympics Closing Ceremony. Despite his musical credentials barely extending beyond his Hollywood appearance as imaginary rock star Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall

and its spin-off Get Him To The Greek, Brand was tasked to perform The Beatles’ I Am The Walrus. Given Oasis released a cover of I Am The Walrus in 1994, did Brand’s mate Noel Gallagher offer him any tips prior to the international spectacle? “No, he didn’t give me any tips before it, but he gave me plenty of abuse after it,” Brand admits. “It was quite aggressive abuse, actually – I’ve kept the answerphone message he left me after the Olympics and it forms part of my show.” In the celebratory aftermath of the Closing Ceremony, Brand partied with the reunited Spice Girls. An ensuing romantic interlude with Geri Halliwell became the butt of another Gallagher jibe, with the Manchester guitarist decrying his mate’s choice of Spice: “Fucking hell – out of all the Spice Girls, not Ginger!”. “He’s got a nerve, the way he’s carried on,” Brand laughs. Long before the Olympics gave the UK a reinvigorated pride in dear old Blighty, both Gallagher and Halliwell put the Union Jack to iconic use. Gallagher famously wielded an Epiphone featuring the design, while the 1997 Brit Awards saw Halliwell squeezed into a Union Jack dress that had her looking as hot and spicy as a rack of fresh fruit buns straight out of the oven. Only Brand’s iconic pal Morrissey, who earned infamy for a misinterpreted use of the flag in 1992, came close to drawing as much attention to the Union Jack in the 1990s. “Yeah, I’d like to get my hands on all three of those icons,” Brand absent-mindedly suggests, as if still visualising Halliwell in her Union Jack dress. “It’s really very peculiar being friends with Morrissey, various West Ham footballers and even Noel - it’s odd to revise people you once feted to being simply human.” But is Morrissey human? Brand has previously suggested the former Smiths frontman still has a Wildean aura to him even behind closed doors. “No you’re right, Morrissey does actually

Essex Dogs Russell Brand reveals he has been to Adelaide once before – on a family visit with ex-girlfriend Teresa Palmer. “I don’t remember Adelaide much since I was only there for a couple of days with Teresa. We saw Port Power play and I enjoyed it, but they lost. As soon as I’ve found an Australian team to support they’re also shit, so I can’t get a break. What else do I know about Adelaide… Todd and Katie on Neighbours were from there. Did you watch Neighbours in the old days? They were in Neighbours when Jim Robinson was still in it. They moved in from Adelaide and I remember thinking, ‘Adelaide! Ooh, that sounds interesting!’ I’m really excited about coming back.”

remain elusive or mysterious. With Noel though you sometimes forget and think he’s a normal bloke, but then you do a gig with him and it’s like, ‘Oh my God! It’s the bloke from Oasis!’ With Morrissey, every utterance is somewhat magical.” Brand says a rumoured starring role in a remake of the old British television series Rent-A-Ghost is no longer happening, but he’s not averse to resurrecting another bizarre UK character from the 1980s. Brand’s spirits lift when talk turns to weird scarecrow Worzel Gummidge – even if a dirty old protagonist who hangs out in children’s yards now has a rather worrying paedo hue. “Worzel Gummidge! Yes, that’s a good one! I don’t think he was a paedophile, but he was definitely freaky. I’m working on a few things at the moment, actually – my own screenplays and stuff like that. All those things take so bloody long though.” They do indeed Mr Brand, but it’s surely an easier way to make a living than wanking off strangers, yes? WHO: Russell Brand WHERE: Adelaide Entertainment Centre WHEN: Fri Nov 30

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Gorgeous Weather Gorgeous Festival, a boutique event held in McLaren Vale with a focus on fine quality music, food and wine, was such a success in 2011 that it is being staged again in 2012 with the main stage hosting headliner Missy Higgins alongside Dan Sultan, Gossling, The Preatures, Butterfly Boucher, Hayden Calnin and Adelaide’s Johnny McIntyre. ther local artists such as Nancy Bates, Ginger & The Ghost, Echo & The Empress, Todd Sibbin and Carla Lippis & The Martial Hearts will also be taking to the smaller APRA Petite Stages and the bar will host premium wines from selected regional wineries. Regional restaurants will be complementing the wines on offer with fresh local produce and there will also

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be a crèche facility and chef demonstrations. Melbourne’s Dan Sultan, who will be playing in solo mode at Gorgeous Festival, is looking forward to the event as it will give him an opportunity to catch up with good friend Missy Higgins. He has also never before had a chance to visit the picturesque McLaren Vale region. “No, never been there before so it’s going to be good,” he says. “And it’s always good to catch up with Missy.” Sultan has recently returned from overseas where he was performing with The Black Arm Band. “I love doing shows with those guys,” he enthuses, “and it’s now like we’ve become one big family. And the first time I ever went overseas a few years ago was with The Black Arm Band, so they’ve always sort of been there for me. And this time we went to Wales and London – that was for the lead-up to the Olympics – and we had a great time. “But I didn’t see any of the Olympics because I took a bit of time off and just chilled out. I

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Entering The Cave Dan Sultan performed the iconic Nick Cave song Deanna along with Get Ready For Love as part of Triple J’s Straight To You tribute concert, released on DVD and CD earlier this year. “That was great,” Sultan says, “but was also really intimidating. It was hard to get my head around them to make sure I did them justice. That was the intimidating part, because you can’t go into a Nick Cave tribute half-heartedly even though you are a bit scared. And I love his songs because they are so interesting. “And none of the artists involved [such as Kram, Adalita, Lisa Mitchell, Lanie Lane and Paul Kelly] wanted to do a better version than Nick’s original, they just wanted to do justice to a great songwriter and a great poet. So it was a real honour to be involved. I don’t know what Nick thought about it all though. But that’s okay.”

could have gone to the opening ceremony but I just wanted to be a bit cruisy and chill. So I went over to Ireland for a couple of weeks. I was there about four years ago and have good friends and family there. It was a good time.” The musician goes on to say he’s currently working towards his next album. “I’m doing a lot of writing and thinking about doing some demos so there are loose plans to go into the studio soon and do that,” Sultan reveals. “I know it’s been a while since the last album but I’ve really just been taking it a bit easy really. “And I was on the road for quite a while – hey, I’m not complaining because everyone has to do that – so it’s been good to have a break. But I do want to get another record on the go.” Not that Sultan hasn’t been busy as, apart from his recent overseas trip, he’s also captained Espy Rockdogs for a couple of charity football matches this year, performed at Sydney Opera House for Jimmy Little’s memorial concert and worked with Archie Roach on his gospel-flavoured new album, Into The Bloodstream. The musician also did an acoustic tour with Oh Mercy’s Alex Gow last year. “I enjoyed that very much,” Sultan remarks. “Alex and I really hit it off and I’ve always enjoyed Oh Mercy. But I hadn’t realised what an incredible songwriter he is. And the way he goes about things is pretty special too.” Sultan will have also taken part in Rock For Recognition (a series of events put together by Oxfam and ANTaR with the support of the National Congress Of Australia’s First People) before he comes to Adelaide. “We’re hoping that will build and at least we’re getting the word out there,” he says. “And, hopefully we’ll bring Rock For Recognition to Adelaide next year.” WHO: Dan Sultan WHERE: Gorgeous Festival, McLaren Vale WHEN: Sat Nov 24

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Return Of The Cam Cam Goodall, the former member who parted ways with The Audreys to pursue an acting career shortly after the recording of debut album Between Last Night And Us, will be joining The Audreys at Elder Hall.

Elder Hall, which officially opened on North Tce in 1900, is considered one of Australia’s finest and most historic concert halls. It’s home to The Elder Conservatorium Of Music and more usually stages jazz and classical concerts, but will now host what will become a regular series of contemporary music concerts known as Elder Unplugged. he first of these will feature three-time ARIA winning Adelaide band The Audreys (in duo mode with special guest, former member Cam Goodall) alongside Myles Mayo (of Special Patrol) and Under The Hood from The Elder Conservatorium Of Music. The concert will commence at 7pm, but there will be pop-up bars and food stalls on the lawns outside from 5pm making it a great spot to head to for a Friday afternoon wind-down. We speak to The Audreys’ Taasha Coates the day after the band collected a trophy for Best Acoustic Act as part of Fowler’s Live Music Awards. “It was a good night,” Coates say of the previous evening’s festivities, where more than 20 awards were handed out to industry-types such as band managers Daisy Brown and Alice Fraser along with local acts Hilltop Hoods, The Killgirls, Truth Corroded, Leader Cheetah and Lady Strangelove. “And we did a short acoustic set of other artists’ songs including one by The Beards,” Coates says of the infamous locals, who also collected an award for Best Music Video for You Should Consider Having Sex With A Bearded Man on the night. The Audreys, who ventured out on an acoustic tour earlier this year to promote the release of the 3CD set Collected, which highlighted their three ARIA winning albums, are now looking forward to performing as part of the first Elder Unplugged at Elder Hall next week. “I think it’s a really great concept,” Coates announces, “so we’re really vibed about it as it’s not a venue we would have ever thought about playing. And it’s an incredibly beautiful space with great acoustics so it’s going to work really, really well. Especially given its location with the pop-up bars on the lawns. “And because Tristan [Goodall] and I are writing songs for our next album, we’ll be throwing in a few of those. We are also thinking about doing some covers of songs that have influenced us.” Coates goes on to say that the songs for what will be The Audreys’ fourth album are coming along rather well. “I reckon we’re becoming old-hands at songwriting,” she laughs. “It’s certainly a lot easier than when we were trying to write songs for our second album [When The Flood Comes]. That was really hard, but the new ones are coming quite easily. And it’s been really enjoyable too.” Melbourne musician Shane O’Mara has produced the band’s three albums but may not helm the next one. “Shane’s great but he kinda jokingly said to us when we were making Sometimes The Stars that it would be the last one we’d do together. ‘You’ll have to get someone else for the next one to get a different perspective,’ he’d told us, but we’re having a meeting with him soon to talk about things. And even if he doesn’t produce it, we’ll probably get Shane to play on it at least.” When we last spoke, Coates had also suggested that the next album would be recorded overseas. “I must have said that before checking our bank balance,” she now laughs. “We’d obviously love to do that but I don’t think it’s going to happen. “And because we’re looking for another story for the fourth record, we’ve now gone completely the other way and are toying with the idea of doing a low-key recording at home. “That’s just an idea we’re kicking around but, as a mum with a young bub, staying close to home would be good for me.”

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WHO: The Audreys, Myles Mayo and Under The Hood WHERE: Elder Hall, North Tce WHEN: Fri Nov 30 from 7pm

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“Yeah, Cam will be doing some songs from that first album with us,” Taasha Coates excitedly reveals. “He’s moved back to Adelaide and is currently in a play [State Theatre’s In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play which runs at Dunstan Playhouse until Sat Nov 24] but he’ll be finished with that by the time Elder Hall comes up, so he’s going to join us. “Cam also got up with us in Sydney when we toured up there earlier this year and it was great. It was so much fun and everyone was grinning like idiots.”

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This Is What You Want… Punk’s answer to Zelig, Martin Atkins’ musical collaborations on both sides of the Atlantic have influenced countless artists. More than two decades since he quit Public Image Ltd during his last Australian visit, the Chicago-based musician now brings his lecture and DJ performance Down Under. nducted into John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols act PiL as a teenager, the Coventry drummer later moved on to partnerships with Ministry, Killing Joke and Nine Inch Nails in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The author of Tour:Smart and Welcome To The Music Business: You’re Fucked now lectures around the world on the realities of making music in the modern day, as well as throwing in amusing anecdotes relating to his own experiences. Inspired by punk after Sex Pistols’ television appearance on Bill Grundy’s Today show in 1976, a few years later the drummer was working with their protagonist John Lydon after answering a Melody Maker ad. Atkins’ first rehearsals snared him both a writing credit on the iconic Metal Box and his first overseas adventure. “I was going to the audition complex called Townhouse Studios in London where Phil Collins and Queen and everybody recorded and I was shown the drumkit. They rolled tape and [bassist Jah] Wobble and I wrote rhythm lines to Bad Baby right there. After 20 minutes of another rehearsal with Wobble he called their publicist Jeanette [Lee]: ‘Book that show in Paris’. It was two nights at Le Palace, where we recorded [1980’s] Paris Au Printemps – it was my very first show!” It’s an interesting PiL postscript that Red

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Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea was offered the bassist job during LA auditions in 1984. “Yeah, I spent 25 minutes jamming with Flea but he said after completely setting the place on fire rhythmically that he already had a band called Red Hot Chili Peppers and he just came along to jam with us. We spent a couple of weeks trying to get him to give up this ridiculous Chili Peppers thing, which I assured him was going nowhere, but it speaks volumes for him that he resisted touring Japan with us. Going to Japan back then was an exotic experience, so I think it’s tremendous he held out and stuck with the Chili Peppers.” Flea, as well as Tool’s Danny Carey, Nine Inch Nails’Trent Reznor and a multitude of acclaimed performers, all worked on Atkins’ post-Ministry project, Pigface. “Pigface was quite a special band for me. Flea played on a track called Divebomber - we jammed until the two-inch tape ran out. When Trent was involved in Pigface I think he wanted to be involved with the Chicago scene, as there were so many cool people on the first Pigface album. It’s all been glorious, it really has.” After enjoying the camaraderie of Pigface during the recording of 1991 album Gub, Reznor revised his Atkins co-write Suck for Nine Inch Nails’ Grammy-winning 1992 EP Broken. The CD went platinum across the globe. “I liked his version. I like hearing different versions of things. I think when Trent’s performed it he’s introduced it as a Pigface song, which is kind of cool.” Martin Huxley’s Nine Inch Nails biography suggests Atkins also performed live with the band on a few occasions, however the 53-yearold says this is incorrect. “No, I played in the Head Like A Hole video and performed on the track Wish and perhaps another track on Broken, but I didn’t play any shows. Actually, I might have played a floor tom at

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a Lollapalooza show, but that’s all.” With his tentacles stretching across the globe, who’s been the biggest music industry arsehole Atkins has dealt with? “Ha! Well let me take a step back from that… Lydon has charisma in the largest amounts, [Ministry’s] Al Jourgensen has it to a certain extent, Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke… When you see that kind of charisma and power onstage, I am more willing to excuse lapses of time management or whatever. We can all be arseholes – it’s just a matter of how long it takes us to come to grips with harnessing that.”

WHO: Martin Atkins WHERE: Enigma WHEN: Fri Nov 23

This Is Not A Love Song John Lydon is a journalist’s dream when it comes to offering golden soundbites, but can his former bandmate Martin Atkins read Lydon interviews these days without gritting his teeth? “I have really fond memories of the good times I spent with John, but it’s very difficult. Two weeks ago I read an interview he did with a San Diego music paper and he was railing on major labels for not giving him a chance and keeping [the re-formed] PiL down. It just seems so completely out of place. Never has there been a time when you need major labels less, so to see him saying those things felt incorrect and disappointing.”

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New Resolve Since forming in 1990 in Santa Barbara, Lagwagon have had a long and distinguished career. They were the first band signed to NOFX singer ‘Fat’ Mike Burkett’s then-fledgling Fat Wreck Chords label, releasing their first full-length, Duh, in 1992 and following it up with Trashed in 1994, which cemented their reputation as one of the burgeoning punk pop revival’s brightest lights. he band released a further five albums between 1995 and 2005, as well as the 2008 EP, I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen To Lagwagon, their most-recent release. Over the past few years, frontman Joey Cape has undertaken the arduous task of going through the vaults to compile expanded reissues of Lagwagon’s first five albums. When asked why he chose to re-release the back catalogue instead of putting together a ‘best of ’, Cape is quick to answer. “The reason we did it is because I, personally – and I can also speak for the band here – I’m not a fan of the anthologies or greatest hits-type records. They do the job of burying the deep cuts from the early records and in the digital world they create a onestop place for someone who’s discovering the band to go and just check out only the songs deemed worthy of being on that record, and in doing that they sort of bury the history of the band, and every record has a time stamp, you know? It represents an era and a period

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of that band’s existence and evolution. If I love a band I cherish all the records, I like to celebrate the different periods of the band. It depends on the mood I’m in and what band it is, whether it be The Ramones or David Bowie. “This was a really nice way to celebrate the early period of the band when we were really prolific and we had a lot of extra material and also maintaining the integrity of those earlier releases and dealing with the releases that have the most to benefit from such a process. If you were to take an MP3 player and it’s shuffling songs, like when an old punk song comes on you can hardly hear it compared to modern records. So we were able to bring them up to a competitive, more realistic volume in today’s world, but we were also able to master specifically for vinyl and specifically for CD in the case of some of those early records where they were only mastered for one.” Cape – who’s also playing some solo shows in Australia prior to Lagwagon’s tour – admits that when Lagwagon started out more than 20 years ago, he didn’t expect the band to still be touring this many years down the track. “But let me be clear, we don’t make much of a living off our band anymore,” he admits frankly. “If we tour constantly we make an okay living, but bands like us don’t sell much of any records anymore. Everybody in the band has another job… my other jobs are the other six bands I play in. But yeah, I never thought we’d be doing it this long. Every time we make a new record, or go out on tour, I still get this weird feeling like, ‘Oh cool, we’re doing this again’. It’s surprising to me.” Cape also reveals that after their current touring commitments are over, Lagwagon plan to return to record their first full-length since 2005’s Resolve. “We do, and it’s been a long time, mostly due to the fact that I didn’t know what the

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Name Check One of Joey Cape’s dearest friends, No Use For A Name frontman Tony Sly, died earlier this year. As Cape explains, he was one of the last people to see Sly alive and is still shocked by his friend’s sudden passing. “I was on tour with him the day before on the east coast in the States and we just wrapped

identity of the band was. As a songwriter I sort of take my time and everyone is cool with it because we don’t want to do anything that we’re not proud of, so sometimes we take five years to make a record; it’s just the way it is in this band.”

it up. Tony flew home and he passed away as soon as he got home. It’s tremendously tragic. We’ve talked a lot about doing one of his songs with Lagwagon [on this tour] and I think we will. We’re having a bit of a tough time coming to agreement on which song to do – it’s difficult because we all like the band a lot and everybody has different songs they’d like to play.”

WHO: Joey Cape & Lagwagon WHERE & WHEN: Blackmarket (Joey Cape solo) on Fri Nov 23 and Fowler’s Live (Lagwagon and Paper Arms) on Fri Dec 7

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Sebastien Leger Born to two professional musicians, Sebastien Leger attended a music academy from the age of five up until he was 15, integrating technique and musical theory on both piano and drums. As a teenager, Leger was impressed by the likes of Ian Pooley, Daft Punk and DJ Sneak, diving into the world of DJing as a result of discovering this completely new world of music. In 1998 Leger started creating his own house productions and during that year also released his first EPs under the alias Deaf’n’Dumb Crew. The following year Leger and his partner Jimmy van de Velde established the house and techhouse labels Cyclik, Subkroniq and recently BITS music for more electro-house tunes. Leger also released his first album Atomic Pop in that year, which included an appearance from Junior Sanchez, and went on to earn a reputation for being one of the most in-demand remixers as well, working for artists like Armand van Helden, Kevin Saunderson, Ron Carroll and Paul Johnson. Sebastien Leger plays at White Rabbit on Fri Dec 7.

Pablo Valentino

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A talented French DJ from East France, Pablo Valentino has been honing his craft since 1997, dabbling in genres across the board, from jazz/funk to boogie/ disco, to house/broken beat and hip hop. As the founder of the Faces Recordings imprint (which has featured releases from Simbad and Danilo Plessow’s Motor City Drum Ensemble/Inverse Cinematics aliases), Valentino has also released 12” under his Creative Swing Alliance, Kid Swing and Hipster Wonkaz pseudonyms. Add to all that his MCDE imprint with Plessow, Valentino also coruns the already iconic and buy-on-sight label which has gained notoriety and cult status with its Raw Cuts series (ubiquitous in many DJs’ sets regardless of their genre). Both labels focus on quality rather than quantity from artists like Motor City Drum Ensemble, L’Aroye, The Revenge, Simbad, Mono/Poly, RedNose Distrikt, Kira Neris and lots more. Catch Pablo Valentino at Sugar with support slots from Big Bubba, Skippy and Zej Burton. Tickets will be $10 on the door or $5 for members. Pablo Valentino plays at Sugar on Fri Nov 30.

Where did the band name come from? Originally it was Jad Lee and I [Dom Bird] producing under the name Mitzi. It was kind of like an alias so people didn’t know it was two dudes from Brisbane. It could have been anyone. We won a remix competition and got offered to play live at Parklife. It was too good an opportunity to turn down so two of our other mates Charlie [Murdoch] and Cale [Suesskow] jumped aboard and we pretty much wrote a whole live set to just play at Parklife.

Miller City Sessions: Pete Gooding & Gina Turner Miller Genuine Draft beer will be bringing to Australia 10 resident DJs from 10 of the world’s most iconic nightclubs as part of a special event, Miller City Sessions. Showcasing cities famed for their vibrant nightlife at 100 events nationwide, Australia will get to experience the sights, sounds and atmosphere of some of the top venues from four key destinations including London, Ibiza, New York and Las Vegas. Adelaide’s Stamford Grand and Stamford Plaza will play host to Ibiza DJ and Cafe Mambo resident Pete Gooding, who will give us a taste of the Balearic attitude of the world’s biggest party island, which epitomises his own sound. Gooding will also be joined by New York’s Gina Turner who is bringing the glamour, decadence and extravagant ambiance associated with the Pacha NYC brand. Miller City Sessions presents Pete Gooding at the Stamford Grand on Fri Nov 30 and at the Stamford Plaza on Sat Dec 15; Gina Turner at the Stamford Plaza on Sat Dec 8.

What’s your inspiration as a band? We recently saw Shut Up And Play The Hits, the LCD Soundsystem documentary, it just blew us away. If there was any band that all four of us could agree we look up to and what we aspire to, it would be LCD Soundsystem. In songwriting and how they are as a live act.

That’s a connection we’ve heard in your music – you have that DFA live organic sound. We go for a kind of disco aesthetic with live drums but we can also integrate that with a lot of electronic samples and sounds.

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What’s the dynamic for creating a song as there are four of you, but you started out as two-piece…? Originally I wrote the three tracks off the first EP (All I Heard) and took it to the band and we all performed it live and recorded it. This new album is a complete collaborative process. Anyone of us will come to the table with an idea and we will just expand on it. Since we had our own studio where we had access 24/7, we could meet up with an idea and just build on it and jam it out. The whole process has changed over time.

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Ne-Yo is back with a new album best summed up as easy, breezy, smooth and charismatic – pretty much what we’ve come to expect from the crooner who’s penned tracks for the likes of Beyonce and Rihanna. It’s been said that Ne-Yo initially had more than 150 songs to cull down for R.E.D., and if they’re anything like most of the tunes on this record, it probably wasn’t an easy process for the singer/songwriter. Overall the album is a nice little mix of dance-oriented pop and soulful R&B, with Ne-Yo opening the album with a warning: “After this song you’re gonna love me for my honesty or you’re gonna hate me”. It’s mostly the former rather than the latter. Lyrically, he moves through phases of self-loathing and disgust, love lost and love found, and the standard pitfalls of fame... Does it come as a surprise that the best track on R.E.D. is the Sia-penned single Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself )? At this stage in the local’s career, the answer is no. Simone Keenan

Miguel Campbell has said the whole aviation concept behind his debut album came as a result of all the jet-setting the producer had done ever since last year’s smash single Something Special first reached the world’s ears (it also became Beatport’s highest selling record for 2011). The timing of this artist album couldn’t have been better either – the summery vibes and sun-kissed sounds are plentiful in what can best be described as Campbell’s original collection of retro house and funk productions. He does venture into the world of electro for a moment or two, especially on the nostalgic, straight-outof-the’80s track Boy, and there are even traces of electric guitar on one of the album’s stand-out track, The Avenger. You’ll find the 2011 hit tracks Something Special on Back To Flight School too, but Campbell’s new material overall stands up nicely on its own. Simone Keenan

Quirky but brilliant is Mika’s niche and on his third album he’s back with more of it. While other artists would rather brag about ‘maturing’ and ‘growing up’ with each new album, there’s none of that on The Origin Of Love (the man compares falling in love to candy canes...). And thank God for that. Poppy bounce and playful melodies are what Mika does best but getting Pharrell Williams to do a verse on the track Celebration and teaming up with hip hop writer Priscilla Renea on Popular Song (and even having a go at rapping himself!) sees Mika venture into some foreign waters – though managing to swim rather than sink. Most of the time it’s kitsch and silliness but every now and then he gets deep on ballads like the gorgeous piano-laden Underwater, and sometimes he just speaks the truth as on the oh-sotrue Love You When I’m Drunk. The Origin Of Love is weird and wonderful – and it’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from one of the UK’s more underestimated pop songwriters. JP Cameron

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Brit DJ Miguel Campbell is spearheading an underground house music revival from Northern England. The Leeds native has dropped his debut album, Back In Flight School, on Jamie Jones’ Hot Creations – and it’s even received props from Grazia. Campbell experienced huge success with Something Special, Beatport’s highest selling record of last year, and won a DJ Mag ‘Best Of British’ award, but he’s been active for some years. He launched his label, Outcross Records, in 2006. “My family and I were avid music collectors and I began DJing at my local youth club in my teens,” Campbell recaps. “I got into house music after I began clubbing in Leeds and Manchester. I started off as a hip hop DJ but very quickly realised that I found more enjoyment in four/four dance music.” In fact, Back... is Campbell’s third album as he previously released two with Matt Hughes as MAM. The audaciously post-electro set explores, not only his love of vintage funk and disco, but also ‘80s Michael Jackson and classic French touch. “I just wanted to make an album which had the various styles of house music that I am into making therein. I wanted a music journey that people could listen to and understand throughout the course of the playlist.” For his LP Campbell sought local singers and MCs – all friends. Singer Becks Lott especially stuns on the gorgeous Not That Kind Of Girl. Importantly, Campbell was granted complete autonomy by Hot Creations’ bosses Jones and Lee Foss for the stable’s inaugural album project. Jones had signed the West Yorkshire lad’s Something Special on hearing it at the Miami Winter Music Conference. “The guys at the label just let me do my thing and make the music that I believed in. I

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was not asked to make music that sounded a certain way or anything like that.” That Grazia has picked up on Back... indicates its potential to cross over to pop audiences (and fashionistas!), as did the music of another houser named Miguel – California’s Miguel Migs – in the early 2000s. Campbell welcomes such recognition. “For me, pop music is simply popular music and, if the music that I make becomes popular, then that is great. I tend to just do what I have always done and that is make music from the heart. If people consider it to be ‘pop’ or ‘crossover’, then that is great because it means lots of people may dig it.” British music is buoyant at the moment with supple hybrids emerging, like the

so-called post-dubstep sound, as well as a rejuvenated deep house, yet Campbell is concentrating on his own endeavours. “I tend not to think about all of that stuff, I am just happy that my music is being enjoyed by people,” he says. “I just do my own thing and enjoy what I do. I think it is too easy to get caught up in all of the hype of things, and so I try to stay away from all of that and just do what I love.” The disco-houser is industrious, with more music imminent from MAM. “I am still working with Matt – and we are working on new material all of the time. We have been remixing the EPs on Outcross as MAM, most recently the Inland Knights’

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It’s been a “slow and bizarre” year for US beat-maker Baths [AKA Will Wiesenfeld], who’s about to make his first trip to the other side of the world, Australia. Reflecting back on 2012, he claims the past 12 months have been a frustrating blend of health issues and recording, not to mention emotional draining which has – thankfully – worked rather well in favour of the general atmosphere of his new album. “I’ve still been fighting with the tail end of being really sick from last year, amidst working hard on a new record,” he says. “It’s been a complex mix of emotions too... I’ve done far, far less touring than I did in 2011 or even 2010. I actually made a conscious effort to do

as few shows as possible this year in order to have the time and the space to work on new material. I’m keeping things pretty under wraps until the new album is complete, but I can tell you the tone is much darker than what I’m used to writing. It should be around spring time of 2013 that it comes out.” In the meantime, Wiesenfeld is making up for lost touring time by heading our way for a series of shows this month – including a highly anticipated set in Adelaide. Having only recently arrived in the country, he confesses he had no idea what to expect from his first visit, Australia always having been one of those exotic places most people only hear about but never get to experience first-hand. “If you grew up in the States, that’s what it feels like,” he laughs. “It’s the magical beaches and all that... It’s been lovely since I’ve been here. I’m making friends in every city, though I have yet to actually spend an afternoon at the beach! I haven’t been too familiar with

the scene at all but the group Empire Of The Sun made my favourite track of either 2011 or 2010 – I can’t remember which year it was. It’s that song, Walking On A Dream – it’s perfect! I’ll always love that song. Love that group too. At the moment I’m listening to this group called Azeda Booth, it’s been my primary listening for the past couple of years. I’ve been listening to a lot of ASMR lately, which is this weird internet subculture of people making relaxing videos of gentle sounds, like fingernails tapping or crinkling paper, sometimes people whispering... It’s mixed with a lot of ambient music. I’m very into music that relaxes me.” And although his upcoming album is his sole focus right now, Wiesenfeld still occasionally reminisces over the record that earned him global acclaim and opened the doors to the world’s stages. 2010’s Cerulean saw the debut both named as the 21st best album of 2010 by the AV Club, while Pitchfork

Break Out EP. We are also working on an EP for Future Classic. We will be focusing on the MAM project lots next year, so keep an eye out for all of the new stuff.” Campbell has definite creative goals. “I have lots of ambitions, ranging from releasing more albums to doing a movie soundtrack. One thing I am very passionate about, though, is helping others get their music heard – and this will be the main focus of Outcross over the next year.” WHO: Miguel Campbell WHAT: Back In Flight School (Balance Music/EMI)

gave it an ‘Honourable Mention’ in their countdown of best albums of that year... So what was it about Cerulean that captured the world’s attention? Well, Wiesenfeld is still trying to work that out himself... “No idea,” he says. “Often I find myself having a dialogue with myself about that... I got comparisons to J Dilla and Toro Y Moi which made sense because that was primarily what I was listening to around the time I made that record and a grip of those aesthetics made their way into Cerulean. Lately, though, I’ve veered pretty far from that territory.” Going back even further, however, Wiesenfeld claims it was Icelandic eccentric Bjork who was a particularly significant influence on his early material – and, in fact, continues to be so to this day. “Her records are still extremely relevant,” he adds. “I’m still taking cues and ideas from Vespertine and Homogenic all the time. It’s complicated to explain what I love about Bjork, but more than anything, I’d say it was that she has always been herself. That’s sort of the defining thing for me in making music – to never be disingenuous. I fell out of favour with classical music and stopped playing piano at around the age of 12, then when I played the piano again a year or two later, all I wanted to do was write music. I got a computer and MIDI keyboard around the same time, so songwriting and using technology to do so have never been mutually exclusive for me. I’ve always written parts with instruments as well as with production. It works for me.” WHO: Baths WHERE: Rocket Bar WHEN: Thu Nov 22

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Paul Di’Anno and Blaze Bayley share a unique common ground; both recorded two studio albums with Iron Maiden as lead vocalist, albeit in vastly different circumstances. The former (pictured) fronted the British metal legends on their classic first two records (Iron Maiden and Killers), being at the forefront of their rapid ascent in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s. He was replaced by Bruce Dickinson, to legions of fans the definitive Maiden vocalist. When The Air Raid Siren departed in 1993 following a decade of dizzying success, Bayley stepped in. After the poorly received Virtual XI and its troubled tour, Dickinson returned in 1999. Maiden has since experienced significant career resurgence, again playing to packed arenas and headlining major festivals. Bayley’s tenure coincided with a general downturn in metal’s popularity. Metallica and Pantera flourished, but otherwise grunge and numetal superseded the more traditional styles. “I didn’t really care,” he emphasises. “If there are 10 fans or 10,000, I still try to give the best performance possible. I knew it wasn’t my fault so there was nothing I could do about it, apart from giving the best show. It was a great time for me.” The question is posed as to whether Bayley felt the Maiden releases he appeared on were unfairly treated by fans and critics. “I don’t know. They were very different to what the fans were used to, so I did expect them to be more critical. I am very proud of these albums. It was a difficult time for fans because their favourite singer had left the band, so I understand why they were not happy. I try to go see them when they are touring in the UK, but it’s difficult because I am also on tour a lot of the times.” Despite their historic connection, the pair has only recently formed a kinship while touring together onand-off during the past year. “I knew who Paul was of course, but we weren’t close friends before,” Bayley explains. “These last few weeks I have got to know him better and I find him a very funny man. He is a good performer and I think it works well to do these shows.” The tour is also Di’Anno’s first visit to Australia since serving several months’ prison time after being convicted of benefit fraud last year. “I’ve had a bloody blast [Down Under] the last couple of times,” Di’Anno laughs. “My best memory was going to see my mate Bon Scott in Perth, leaving him some Stone’s ginger wine, a couple of ciggies and then goin’ for fish and chips.”

WHO: Paul Di’Anno & Blaze Bayley WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Sun Nov 25

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UK ska band The Selecter, who formed in Coventry in 1979 alongside The Specials, are heading to Australia for the first time and singer Pauline Black promises they will be delivering a great show. “It’s be our usual high energy concert and we’ll be doing all the singles – y’know, Too Much Pressure, Three Minute Hero, On My Radio and all those – and I know that people are going to be pleasantly surprised. “We also did a new album, Made In Britain, last year so we’ll also be doing songs from that as well as some songs from our second album, Celebrate The Bullet,” Black adds. “So it’s quite a varied collection that will please everyone.” The band is buoyed by the fact recent Australian tours by fellow UK ska bands The Specials and The English Beat have been very successful.

“That’s good to hear,” Black, the narrator of the BBC Four music documentary Soul Britannia and who features as a performer in Reggae Britannia, says. The Selecter came into being when The Specials required a B-side for their very first single. “Neol Davies had recorded an instrumental a couple of years before called The Selecter and The Specials asked to use it as the B-side to their Gangsters single,” Black explains. “So when the record went top 10, Neol decided it would be a good idea to get a band together. I was doing some reggae stuff with a band in Coventry, so Lynval Golding of The Specials recommended me to Neol and I then brought in a couple of members of the reggae band. And that was how The Selecter began.” Black, who was adopted as a baby and only discovered a while ago that her natural mother lived in Wollongong, then goes on to say that the whole Two Tone

experience in 1979 was quite a heady one. “There was our 40-date English tour with The Specials and Madness and our singles, On My Radio and Too Much Pressure, had made the top 10,” she says. “And then we all went to America for a big tour. And it was one of those times when, arguably, there was a really significant movement in music against racism.” English singer Billy Bragg made mention of how the Rock Against Racism movement had affected him during his recent concert at Adelaide Town Hall. “Good old Billy,” Black laughs. “And that’s funny because our manager at that time, Juliet, is now married to Billy. So I know him quite well.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment because I’m a huge fan,” Wearne says of the solo artist and Cold Chisel member. “I’ve never tried to sound like Don but perhaps his influence has come through. And I love his songwriting. “And the very first album I ever bought was Cold Chisel’s Last Stand,” he laughs, before going on to say that other early influences were U2, Tom Waits, Paul Kelly and Bob Dylan as well as Pearl Jam. “And mum and dad used to play Eric Bogle and The Seekers in the car whenever we were going on holidays,” Wearne adds with a laugh. “But lately I’ve been getting into Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers and Townes Van Zandt. And I’ve just discovered Ryan Adams.” Adelaide’s Mick Wordley, who has produced an array of albums including some by Jeff Lang, ventured over to Echidna Studios in Victoria to record Black Crow, which he and Wearne then mixed at Mixmasters in the Adelaide Hills.

“In 2008 I was looking to do an album and was asking around and someone recommended Mick,” Wearne says of the association. “So that’s where it started and I did my last album, a completely solo thing, with Mick. And then, because we’d become mates, he was keen to do a band album with me.” Wearne will be supported by The Hushes, a local band featuring Cal Williams Jr and Emily Davis, at his Adelaide launch. “I’ve done gigs with Cal and Emily in Adelaide before and they are both great – great people and great music,” Wearne gushes in conclusion. “So I can’t wait to see The Hushes.”

WHO: The Selecter WHERE: Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Thu Nov 29

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Melbourne singer songwriter Nigel Wearne, who describes himself as a country folk artist, has just issued the dozen-song Black Crow and is touring with his band to promote its release. Black Crow is a fine album of rollicking country and folk that has a very Australian flavour. There are also nods to bluegrass and old-timey jazz. “Perhaps the jazz thing is because I really like Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli,” Wearne considers. “So while I don’t claim to be a Gypsy jazz player or a bluegrass player – I’m just a reasonable guitar player at best – those influences do come through.” The musician, who also crafts his own instruments, is pleased when told that his voice has a very Australian quality and is not unlike the laconic style of Don Walker.

WHO: Nigel Wearne WHAT: Black Crow (Independent) WHERE: Wheatsheaf Hotel (with The Hushes) WHEN: Sun Nov 25 from 4pm

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Thursday 22nd ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Becky Blake (6pm) AUSTRAL – Bunka: DJs BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: The Violet Crams, Thursday’s Friend and Psychodelicacy. Front Bar: DJ Paul Gurry DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz. Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – Vic Conrad & The First Third

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SIDETRACKED FIASCO, GUILTFREE AND THE CLAUSE GASLIGHT TAVERN – Groove Thursdays with Peter Harris Rhythm Cats GILBERT STREET HOTEL – 8 Ball Aitken (7pm) GOLDEN GROVE TAVERN – Dino Jag Trio and guests (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Scottie Miller and The Streamliners GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Mojo Juju HIGHWAY – Escapade Thursdays JETTY BAR – No Use For A DJ Name (8pm) LA BOHEME – French Connection with DJ Zooma (9pm) MARBLE BAR – Ladies Night with Dylan Sanders, VIP, Rupheo, Mike Wills, Ben Earle and Acid Please! MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) MARS BAR – VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night OFFICE ON PIRIE – Lily & The Drum (5.30pm) PARADISE HOTEL – Complete Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Dylan PORTLAND HOTEL – DJs Cold One and Rabbit (9.30pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international guests THE ELEPHANT – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Katrina Caton (8.30pm) WEST ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Friday 23rd ALMA TAVERN – Rock Out With Your C*ck Out AMBASSADORS HOTEL – Ambar Lounge: Souled Out Cocktail Sessions with DJ Jason Lee (5.30pm) ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Brad Iversen (6pm) Triplescore Duo (10pm) Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Steve Gower (8pm)

AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BELAIR HOTEL – The Pikelets 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 – Sonic Museum BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BROADWAY HOTEL – DJ Sneaky Beats BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CAVERN CLUB – Lord, Electrik, Dynamite, Arcadia, Generation Swine and Zero Hour (6.30pm) CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Paul Stubbings COOPERS ALEHOUSE: WALLAROO – Insideout CORIO HOTEL – Lily & The Drum (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) DJ Adam (1am) Band Room: Damned Men, Making, Sparkspitter and Kids With Teeth DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Lodestone Light 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 – Jest (8pm) ENIGMA – Martin Atkins and Circle Clan ESPLANADE HOTEL – 2 Up Duo EXETER HOTEL – Wire & Wood EXETER ON RUNDLE – Ben David & The Banned FINDON HOTEL – karaoke FINSBURY HOTEL – Bon ‘n’ All

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – BLOOD RED RENAISSANCE, SATAN’S CHEERLEADERS AND GUILLTFREE FOWLER’S LIVE – Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Transatlantics GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Hills & Trains with Dr Dosoto GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Big Cheese HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs K & Krispy HIGHWAY – Friday arvo knock-offs HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOPE INN – Dale Roberts HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs HQ – Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) JIVE – Jeff Martin LA BOHEME – Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (9pm) LAVISH – DJ Sok and DJ Spin Dokta LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL – Acoustic Jam with Jelly & Friends LIMBO – resident DJs Japeye, Alley Oop and She Said LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee LOUISIANA TAVERN – Dirty Harry MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs

MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Paul Smith (5.30pm) Two o Hard Basket (8.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said NEXUS CABARET – Persian Cultural Association Presents OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Stellar ORIENTAL – Shane Wolf (4.30pm) Redline (8pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Triple X

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth, Decker and Bollocks plus MC Dylan RENMARK HOTEL – Clearway REX HOTEL – karaoke and Acoustik ROB ROY HOTEL – Usual Suspects (6pm) DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Dino Jag Solo (7pm)

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Gumbo Ya-Ya SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Gerry O SOUTHWARK HOTEL – Proton Pill (8.30pm) 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 – Frenzy and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – DJ Gex (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment THE PRODUCERS – The Tangerines (5pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Troy Harrison (4.45pm) Katatonic (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Kopy Catz (9.30pm) UNION HOTEL – DJ Pauly plays ‘80s and ‘90s VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs Marek and Michael Constant plus MC Kris WAKEFIELD HOTEL – DJ Electric T and guests WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Benny Walker and Matt Stillert (9pm) WHITEHORSE INN – karaoke with Ally & Co WHITMORE HOTEL – Hoy-Hoy with Dave Blight (8pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Full Circle WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Ryley, Track Team and Gumshoe

Saturday 24th ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Dimitra (6pm) DJ Andy M (9.30pm) Lounge Bar: India Hooi (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) Top Room: Adelaide’s Next Superstar Top 3 (7pm) AUCHENDARROCH HOUSE/WALLIS TAVERN – Troy Harrison BARTLEY TAVERN – The crew BLACK MARKET – Joey Cape BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ Steve Reece CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Zepporama CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Wire & Wood CROWN & ANCHOR – 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 – DJ Alex Angulas (8pm) ENIGMA – William Elliott Whitmore plus Ben David & The Banned, The Shadow League, Secondhand Squad, 5 Day Click, Kindy Cult and Derryn Lynch Mob ESPLANADE HOTEL – Tom J Williams EXETER ON RUNDLE – Fake Tan and guests

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – BRAZEN BULL, TZUN TZU, A MILLION DEAD BIRDS LAUGHING AND ASYLUM BUTCHERY (8PM) FOWLER’S LIVE – Movember Mayhem GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)

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The Guide // GEPPS CROSS HOTEL – karaoke disco with Craig Anthony GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Mahalia Barnes and Prinnie Stevens. Front Bar: Lily & The Drum (8.30pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Ocean Party with Wild Oats GRAND BAR – Grand Bar Saturdays with DJ DMH and DJ Rupheo HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Live & Loud presents HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Soundflex HILTON RSL – Geezers (3pm) HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Black Fedora Jazz (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker and Bangwel (8pm) JIVE – Beautiful Fools EP launch, The Informers and Paige & The Ghost KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LA BOHEME – DJ Tr!p and DJ Anthony alternate (9pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Acoustik 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 MARION HOTEL – Franky F (6pm) One Planet (9pm) MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Michael Venner Band ORIENTAL – Lochy Neale

PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Dance On PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Harry & The Hitmen PJ O’BRIENS – Triplescore PORT NOARLUNGA FOOTBALL CLUB – Paleface, Daystarr and Stonecrow (8pm)

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 ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR – requests with DJs SANTIAGO – Hussyboy (8.30pm)

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSIONS SEBEL PLAYFORD – Acoustically Raw SETTLERS TAVERN – Tom Jones Show SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Animal House SOMERSET HOTEL – Eight Ball Aitken 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 SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Nikko & Snooks (7.30pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests

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TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE CUMBERLAND – Launch Pad featuring local DJs THE ELEPHANT – Tube Steaks 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 THE PRODUCERS – Beer Garden: Marcus Meo (5pm) Raise The Bar: hip hop (8pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – Luv2Luv (8.30pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign TOWER HOTEL – Justin Parker UNION HOTEL – DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN – karaoke VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Planet Square WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Heath Cullen and Chris Parkinson & BJ Barker (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Old Dogs Can WINDSOR HOTEL – Wild Ones WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Kontrol, C4, Deceed, J Rudd, Lush and Koops (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Chaps, Osyris, Sanchez, Scott Holder and Ryley

Sunday 25h ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Sunday Beats with DJ Madness (3pm)

Mon Nov 26 Kingpin Bowling Unlimited bowling and laser games all night (7pm - 12am, $30pp) BACCHUS BAR – Dino Jag Duo (4pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Eleven BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Emerald DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Mick Kidd DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL – No Use For A DJ Name (9pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Russel Stewart ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – Hoy-Hoy (4pm) ENIGMA – Ten Foot Pole, Liberation Front, Beaver and The Lizards ESPLANADE HOTEL – Acoustica EXETER ON RUNDLE – Brad Cameron Presents

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – LACERATED SOUL, DRESSED TO DEPRESS, BEDLAM, SILENT PSYCHOSIS AND FRAGMENTA

The Guide // FOWLER’S LIVE – Paul Di’Anno and Blaze Bayley GENERAL HAVELOCK – Eddie (Wasabi) (4pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Craig Atkins (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Vic Conrad & The First Third with Otto’s Jacket (4pm) 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 ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm) JAM THE BISTRO – DJ Tango LAKES RESORT HOTEL – live music LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Lucifers Lounge MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION CULTURAL CENTRE – Mingle Live Acoustic Music (1pm) MARION HOTEL – Bart’s Bar: Phil Emmanuel (6.30pm) Cue ‘n’ Brew: Southern Sundays with Brad Iversen (3pm) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Viotar OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: 2 Up Duo OFFICE ON PIRIE – Sunday Jazz At The Office ORIENTAL – Slyde PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Boris Loves To Boogie PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – 5 Sided Circle

RAMSGATE HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM) ROYAL HOTEL: MOONTA – Billy February (2pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN – Lochy Neale

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Main Bar: Ben Lees Acoustic Duo (2.30pm) Decking: Mr Buzzy (4.30pm) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – 8-Ball Aitken 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) THE PRODUCERS – Beer Garden: Superstar Sunday featuring contestants from Adelaide’s Next Superstar (11am) Producers Bar: Heston Drop with Tom J Williams, Sister Rose and Little Wing (6pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Live In The Courtyard (2pm) ULEYBURY WINES – Lily & The Drum and Cosmic Storm (12pm) VIRGINIA NURSERY – Paul Stubbings 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 – Nigel Wearne and The Hushes (4pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Cripple Creek (4pm)

ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Capital D and Gumshoe ZOOTZ – Salsa night (every second week)

Monday 26th ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Adelaide Comedy with Graham Elwood (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia AVOCA HOTEL – Schnitty & Trivia Night (7pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – Complete Trivia BOATHOUSE TAVERN: TAPEROO – Complete Trivia BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Complete Trivia BULL & BEAR – Muso’s Jam (8pm) EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – Zoe Behan and guests GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Jake The Snake (8pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) S-BAR – karaoke SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen TOWER HOTEL – Complete Trivia

Tuesday 27th 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) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Kino Adelaide MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PARADISE HOTEL – Memory Lane Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE COVE TAVERN – Complete Trivia THE GOODY – Complete Trivia THE GRIFFINS – fresh, funky and progressive tunes THE KINGS BAR – Old Skool Funk with Nixon and Penfold. Back Bar: APL poker THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Tuesday (7pm) VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Wednesday 28th 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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FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SUNNYBOY AL’S KRAZY KARAOKE GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia GLYNDE HOTEL – NPL Poker (6.30pm and 10.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Angus Stone GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Angela Panousakis with Courtney Robb HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm) Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room featuring Jay Hoad HOLDFAST HOTEL – Nonstop Dance Party with DJs Mike Wills & VIP HQ – Flashdance JETTY BAR – karaoke LA BOHEME – The New Cabal (9pm) LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – DJs (9pm) MANSIONS – live band karaoke MARION HOTEL – Adelaide Comedy featuring Graham Elwood (8pm) MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE GOODY – Kickstart DJs THE KINGS BAR – DJ Yusef Wilson THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill TONSLEY HOTEL – quiz night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Hump De Bump with DJ Ryley (8pm) TOWER HOTEL – Uni Night with DJ Dom P TOWER TAVERN: RENMARK – Complete Trivia WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – Creating Styles Karaoke (9pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

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Venue: The Kings Name: Gareth My drink: White trash (white Russian, but with iced coffee instead of milk). Come here if you like: Supporting micro brewers. Must try: Pie floater, $20. Coming up: Gentlemen’s Record Club, first Friday of every month.

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22

SCOTTIE MILLER + THE STREAMLINERS thursday NOV 22

FRONT BAR: GUMBO ROOM BLUES JAM WITH SHADES OF BLUE

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Polecats Polecats, a dance theatre piece devised by Cathy Adamek, made its debut at Bakehouse Theatre for Adelaide Fringe in 2007. It sold out its season, which has now led to its return in 2012 with a national tour and a brand new version. It’s taken five years because, in the meantime, I had a baby and became a mother,” Adamek says. “But we always thought that its success at Adelaide Fringe would lead to putting it on again. Audiences just loved it. “And pole dancing, over the last five years, has become more and more popular, not just as a way of keeping fit but its gymnastic form has really evolved. So we wanted a new version of Polecats to reflect that. As often happens, something that has evolved from a lower form of art, such as being associated with strip clubs, make their way up to becoming high art. And there is now some talk of making pole dancing an Olympic sport. That’s how much it has evolved, but pole dancing is just really a form of vertical gymnastics. “And if you take away any baggage that comes with pole dancing, what you are

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essentially left with is a vertical pole, so the choreographic and physical potential is virtually unlimited.” The show has been revamped with the addition of some extra cast members and new routines. “As well as having pole dancing we wanted to cross-fertilise with other dance forms including burlesque, contemporary dance and ballet,” Adamek explains. “And what’s happened is that a lot of dancers, as I did, have now taken up pole dancing so it’s now so much easier to find people who are wellrounded in all forms of dance.” The cast of Polecats, which includes a world champion doubles pole dancer and a Chinese pole and acrobatic exponent, now features Carlie Angel, a former star of Australian Dance Company. “Carlie comes from a contemporary dance background having worked at ADT with Garry Stewart for a number of years, but was really intrigued by the concept of pole dancing,” Adamek says. The cast, which has retained two cast members from its Adelaide Fringe debut along with its original creative team including lighting designer Nic Mollison, also includes a male pole dancer. “It was important to have a male because he really inverts the show,” Adamek states. “He’s actually the only one who strips – but only down to his shorts – so it’s like a parody of women pole dancing in strip clubs. And that was one of the

things I really wanted to play with.” Mariott Kerr has also come on board to design the costumes. “Mariott does a lot of work in film [Australian Rules, Look Both Ways, Wolf Creek and Red Dog] and was nominated for an AFI award [for period drama Lucky Country],” Adamek says. “She’s done a lot of other costume designs because she used to do work for drag queens and the costumes for all the Dirty House parties back in the ’90s.” Polecats will have spinning stainless steel poles. “One of the problems of staging a pole dancing show is how to rig the poles,” Adamek says. “So I approached John Mignone, who works at Adelaide Festival Centre’s set design workshop, and he was most helpful in designing something for us that would work. “The five poles are actually mounted into the stage,” she says. Adamek, who has worked as a dancer and actor with many companies including State Opera and State Theatre Company and has appeared on the small screen in such shows as McLeod’s Daughters and Out Of The Ordinary, goes on to say that the company is looking forward to their national tour that concludes in February in Melbourne. “As an independent producer I knew that would be difficult, but some people came to me saying they really wanted to invest in the show,” she says. “But we are doing it

Pole Master C Prominent Adelaide DJ Cam Bianchetti (AKA HMC or House Master C), who recently dropped a much-anticipated new album, City Rhythm, has once again put together a soundscape for Polecats. “I went to Cam because I used to go to all the Dirty House parties and wanted Polecats to evoke the kind of underground dance clubs I used to go to in the late ’80s and early ’90s,” Adamek says. “So Cam and I selected the music and he then added some original stuff and then mixed it in his own seamless way in line with the story. And it really helped that our musical tastes are very similar.”

completely unfunded so it’s a bit of a leap into the unknown. “It’s easy enough to put on a show during Adelaide Fringe, but quite another matter entirely to tour it around the country,” Adamek concludes. “So it’s very exciting but quite scary at the same time.” WHAT: Polecats WHERE: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Tue Nov 27 until Sat Dec 1

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Robot And Frank (M) Director Jake Schreier and scripter Christopher D Ford make their feature débuts with this odd but satisfying semi-sci-fi tale toplining a beautifully nuanced performance by Frank Langella. His 70-year-old Frank lives in upstate New York in ‘the near future’ and, as his mind is wandering, he’s called often on an advanced Skype system by his flighty daughter Madison (Liv Tyler) and yuppie son Hunter ( James Marsden) keeps making the 10-hour round-trip to check on him. When the fed-up Hunter gives Frank a carer robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard in more friendly tones than HAL-9000), the never-officially-named machine cleans the house, prepares dinners and suggests projects, but when Frank reveals that he was once a famed jewel thief, the film takes an intriguing turn as he and ‘Robot’ first break into the local library (from which books are naturally being chucked out) to impress the librarian (Susan Sarandon) and then get up to more illegal activities, as we build to a series of plot tricks that prove charmingly eccentric and surprisingly moving.

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Adelaide Cinémathèque 2012 Mercury Cinema

A film that might have seemed strange in theory (a former criminal loses his marbles and steals from the locals with his friend the robot?), this is actually most winning, with nice subplots (the perversion of the library), sweet supporting playing and an interest in science fictional elements that doesn’t get geeky,

meaning that ‘Robot’ is obviously played by someone (Rachael Ma, in fact) in a plastic suit. And, while fanboys have already complained, this lo-fi technology doesn’t matter, as it’s meant to be a story about Frank - not an episode of Star Trek! Mad Dog Bradley

The retrospective John Cassavetes: Explorer Of The Soul, featuring four of this legendary filmmaker’s greatest works, commences at the Mercury Cinema on Thu Nov 29 at 7.30pm with Shadows (1959, PG), and continues on Mon Dec 3 at 7.30pm with Opening Night (1977, M), on Thu Dec 6 at 7.30pm with A Woman Under The Influence (1974, M) and, finally, on Mon Dec 10 at 7.30pm with The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976, M). Cinémathèque details: mercurycinema.org.au.

All The Way Through Evening Q+A Screening Mercury Cinema

Dead Europe (MA)

2 Days In New York (MA)

Director Tony Krawitz (best-known for docos, TV and shorts until now) makes his feature début with this filming of (parts of ) Christos Tsiolkas’ long, dark and nasty 2006 novel, and the result is an ambitious tale with strong playing that’s so relentlessly ugly and cynical that it’s eventually impossible to care. Greek-Australian Isaac (Ewen Leslie) is a gay photographer keen to travel to Greece, but when he announces his plans to his dad (William Zappa) it makes the old man freak out and, it seems, is the impetus for him to kill himself, which therefore means that Isaac goes to Greece anyway, in order to sprinkle Dad’s ashes around rural Athens. However, when he arrives he finds suspicion everywhere, and soon he’s journeying to Paris and Budapest in search of the truth behind a terrible secret, as all the while he becomes increasingly obsessed - and perhaps supernaturally pursued - by Josef, a young refugee lad with haunting and accusing eyes (and Josef ’s played by Kodi Smit-McPhee, obviously older than he was in Romulus, My Father, The Road and Let Me In but still intrigued by humanity’s cruel side). While a daring Leslie works hard here (he’s in every scene and is the standout as the only character with real heart), there’s so much else to dislike, with a view of the festering, unforgiving, racist and hateful side of Europe - complete with rampant anti-Semitism, homophobia, child porn, murder and more that almost makes you want to gag by the end. Mad Dog Bradley

Director/co-producer/co-writer/star Julie Delpy’s follow-up to her 2 Days In Paris (2007) could actually be watched in isolation, without having seen the first film, as everything you need to know is supplied in a short and cute puppet-theatre intro that’s very Delpyish indeed. Her photographer Marion has split from Jack (the unseen Adam Goldberg) and now lives in Manhattan with radio host Mingus (Chris Rock, very appealing), with whom she shares custody of his daughter and, sometimes, the daughter she had with Jack (who, apparently, turned into a real prick after Paris concluded). When Marion’s elderly but spirited dad (Albert Delpy, of course) comes to stay, everyone is ready for forgiveness and kindness in the wake of the death of her mum a few years before, but when he turns up with not only Marion’s hopeless, flirty and druggy sister Rose (co-writer Alexia Landeau) in tow but her sleazy boyfriend (and Marion’s ex) Manu (co-writer Alexandre Nahon) as well, the stage is instead set for a biting comedy about clashing cultures and contemporary families and how (maybe) to survive them. There are fussy, even twitty things here that don’t really work and, naturally, a heady jolt of Woody Allenism, and yet Rock’s pleasing performance, some funny cancer-related comedy (!), a dose of screwball silliness and some nightmarish sibling rivalry sequences keep it lively, while Delpy the director handles the shifts in tone nicely - and is, as always, more than a little ooh-la-la too. Mad Dog Bradley

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (M) It’s the moment Twi-hards and Twi-haters alike have been anticipating since they first clapped eyes on the sparkly, supernatural, abstinence manifesto all those years ago: the final Twilight film is upon us. Taking up where Part 1 finished, Bella awakes from her vampy transition and finds herself faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. With the love triangle sorted since Jacob imprinted on Renesme, and Charlie seemingly fine with his daughter becoming a blood addict, Bella, Edward and their creepy CG baby are free to stalk mountain lions and exchange vacant, time-filling smiles. Yes, everything’s coming up twi-hard, until baby Renesme is mistaken for an immortal child and gets the Cullens reported to the Volturi, Alice and Jasper exit stage left, and the remaining Cullens are forced to rally an army to defend the half-mortal fang-spawn. To say the series peaked two films ago still isn’t saying much, but a thinner than usual plot, clunky dialogue, ghastly special effects and bad pacing by way of a farewell leaves little cause for nostalgia, especially when everyone involved stopped caring long ago. And so, after five long years, one of the most successful film franchises in history goes out, not with a bang, but with two hours of (ahem) vamping for the cameras and an underwhelming conclusion that will still leave the fans choking back sobs and the haters dry-heaving. So Twi-hards, now that it’s over, what are you going to do with your lives? Kat McCarthy

Feast Festival and the Mercury Cinema proudly co-present the Australian premiere of director Rohan Spong’s documentary All The Way Through Evening on Sat Nov 24 at 7pm, with Spong himself there in person for a Q+A afterwards and proceeds going to ACSA (AIDS Council Of South Australia). Details: mercurycinema.org. au (and look out for a review in the next issue).

Opening But Unrated Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (PG), co-produced, co-written and codirected by Lisa Immordino Vreeland (with help from co-directors Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng) is a USfinanced documentary study of the life of hugely influential Harper’s Bazaar editor Diana Vreeland (1906-1989). And, of course, Skyfall (M), just in case your attention has been diverted elsewhere, is the 23rd official James Bond epic, with a cast that includes Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Albert Finney and Ben Whishaw (as Q), direction by Sam Mendes, apparently (and therefore controversially) no credit for original 007 creator Ian Fleming, and even a muchdiscussed title tune by Adele.

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Put together by the same hospitality legends behind Un Caffe Bar and East Terrace Continental, Public is a new cafe, bar and function space on Franklin St that’s been quick to join the ever-growing league of upper class, hip eateries like Press* and Udaberri. With a mix of ‘old and new’ interior and delicious eats, Public’s décor, inspired by the theme of public spaces like old railway stations and grand libraries, is matched by its well-groomed wait staff and polished fridges stocked with delicious food. Open Monday to Friday, with weekends reserved for functions, Public kicks off each day at 7am with breakfast service and continues through the day with a selection of on-the-go items and sit-down lunches. The pork belly rolls and beetroot and green bean salads are a particularly good office lunch option. All of their desserts and pastries are made by their in-house pastry chef, which we’re yet to try but will definitely be investigating soon. On Friday nights Public gets its drinks service into gear, serving spirits, wines and beers into the evening for after-work knock offs. We’ll publicly proclaim that Public is worth a good look and a sit down.

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This dish is a Filipino delicacy and it has Spanish influences. In fact, there are many different versions of this dish, just depends where you are. I like this dish the next day or even better a couple of days after you have made it. Perfect cold or warm and, although I hate to say it, it goes really well with tomato sauce, kind of like a Filipino fritz.

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Hills Cider Co Hybrid Apple & Ginger

Gorgeous Festival Food & Wine with chipotle and parmesan, pulled pork sandwiches, Fino’s chorizo, pickled onion and romesco paninia or artisan cheese platters? If that’s not enough culinary satisfaction for you, there will also be Gorgeous cooking master classes with chef Bradd Johns on the day from 2.30pm – 3.30pm. Sure beats smashing a Chiko roll. WHAT: Gorgeous Festival WHERE: McLaren Vale Visitor Information Centre WHEN: Sat Nov 25

As the current cider market flirts with all kinds of unpalatable flavour bedfellows I’ve been waiting for one that actually makes sense. Thankfully those crazy cats (does Tobias actually own a pair of pants?) from the Hills Cider Co were getting bored with only producing their award-winning apple and pear varietals, so have branched out into some small batch goodness. The second in the ‘hybrid’ series (the first was a nifty little oak-aged apple and pear number) is a co-ferment of premium Adelaide Hills apples and Buderim ginger. The mouth begins with a citrus kick and is carried right to the back of the palate with refreshing acidity and a serious smack of real ginger. Although the spiciness of the ginger won’t be to everyone’s palate it cuts through food better than mainstream ciders and packs a mean right hook at 8% ABV. Drink while listening to Alabama Shakes and pecking on angry prawns.

¾ roasted red capsicum (peeled, diced into 1cm cubes) 4 kabanas (peeled, diced into 1cm cubes) 4tblsp Worcestershire sauce Sea salt (to taste) Ground white pepper (to taste) 12 eggs (hard boiled and peeled)

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2kg pork mince 1kg lean beef mince ¼ cup of vegetable oil ½ bulb of garlic (peeled and pureed) 2 medium carrots (finely diced) 1 stick of celery (finely diced) 1 cup of sweet pickles (finely diced) 1½ cup of sultanas

WHAT: Public Cafe & Bar WHERE: 12 Franklin St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Fri 7am – 5pm for lunch and Fri 5pm – late for dinner CONTACT: publiccbd.com.au

Gorgeous Festival kicks off this weekend, but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s all music. This year will feature an abundance of luxurious food to complement the lilting tunes of acts like Missy Higgins and Gossling, with local restaurants Currant Shed, The Elbow Room, Blessed Cheese, Fino and d’Arenberg all working together to create an unbeatable festival menu of food and wine. So what kind of dishes can you get your mouth around over the weekend? How about lobster medallion with blue swimmer crab and prawn ravioli, goat shoulder curry, char-grilled corn

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Method 1. Turn on the stovetop steamer ready for use. Meanwhile, place pork mince and beef mince into an electric mixer with the paddle attachment. 2. “Work” the meat on low for about 8-10 minutes until the meat becomes slightly sticky in feel. Turn off and allow to rest. 3. Heat up a large frying pan for one minute on high heat and add vegetable oil. Sauté the garlic for about one minute, trying not to get too much colour. 4. Add the onions, carrots and celery and sauté for about two minutes with no colour. Place on a plate and refrigerate until completely cooled down 5. Turn the mixer back on and add the pickles, sultanas, red capsicum and kabanas into the meat and mix well. 6. Add the cooled sautéed vegetables and mix thoroughly. 7. Add the Worcestershire sauce and season to taste, by this you take a little of the meat mix and cook it on a frying pan and taste to get the balance of seasoning. 8. Lay out cling film about 30cm long on the bench, nice and flat. Place some mix onto the cling film, pressing down, making it no thicker than about 1cm. It should be formed into a perfect rectangle. 9. Once even and flat, place six boiled eggs lined up in the middle of the meat. Grab the closest edge of the cling film to you on both sides and using the tension of the cling film, roll the meat over the boiled eggs until the opposite edges of the meat join together. 10. Close the cling film tight and roll the ends. Place it into a foil and roll it tight into the foil, sealing the edges. 11. Place in the steamer and steam for 45 minutes. 12. Heat up a frying pan. Unroll the meat out of the foil and cling film and seal the edges on hot frying until golden brown then serve.

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 By being yourself, you can set up a healthy synergy with those who have some sway. In uncertain times, creative solutions are required. Rigid methods simply don’t work when change and flow is the going reality. There will be some who get their noses out of joint. Be brave.

Taurus 21.04/20.05 Solitude is a good place for getting on with the work that you most want to do. Embrace the lack of attention. It’s a definite bonus. Keep to the middle. There are no accolades for a taking a gentle approach – but there is a deep satisfaction that arises in the heart when you do.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 Mercury is retrograde. He’s unpicking all the good communication that has gone before and opening up the ground to start again. This causes even the unflappable to flap. Perhaps there were things unsaid, and you were resting on uneasy ground. Get it straight this time.

Cancer 22.06/22.07 The moon is travelling through Capricorn. This has you craving independence, individuality and efficiency. You aren’t in the mood to be so lost in emotions that nothing gets done. This may seem to be out of character but the opposite always exists somewhere inside us.

Leo 23.07/22.08 Feeling empowered is often more of a challenge than resting comfortably in powerlessness. There’s a certain responsibility that comes with power, that makes complaint seem fickle or petty. Life will slow you down and make you aware of every move you make.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 Mercury going retrograde puts a rather large stick in your spokes. Communication is likely to be the bone of contention. Knowing this will allow you a few preparatory moments in which to remind yourself to be particularly aware, lest a beautiful thing goes pear-shaped.

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Libra 23.09/23.10 Venus is travelling through Libra. She is mellowing out the rough edges – and there are a few. Mercury being retrograde in Scorpio could lead to a spate of incidents where people shoot themselves in the foot whilst trying to say difficult things. Have compassion.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 The sun is still in Scorpio – as is Saturn. This is a bit like trying to dance wildly around your grandfather. Let’s hope you have a really cool grandfather. Metaphorically your aliveness is pitted against ancient beliefs that will either inhibit it or make it very wise indeed.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 Mars has nearly finished his journey through Sagittarius. On the positive side, he has brought a blast of vitality. On the negative side, he might have increased your blood-pressure. As he prepares to depart, check if there is anything left to do whilst you have the energy.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 The rising moon is travelling across the mountain peak you reside upon. She adds a reflective note to your song. That’s a good thing, because it is the sensitive, intuitive side of your life that is presently getting all the juice. Be as soulful as you please. Drop efficiency for now.

Store Front Rejecting the vinyl dystopia of the quick and shiny, local sign painter and artist Tristan Kerr uses the hand to create something that now rarely exists. His work in his most recent exhibition Store Front captures the slow, the purposeful and the pure through post-production of the traditional hand-painted storefronts

of yesteryear. Inspired by the streets of Paris and Hindley St, Kerr’s works combine a contrast of hard rubbish findings with gold leaf gilding and screen prints, a blend of coarse and suburban with bold and bright. There will be tunes provided by Sons Of Fuzz DJs on the opening night, don’t miss it.

WHAT: Store Front by Tristan Kerr WHERE: Magazine Gallery, 83a Clubhouse Lane, Adelaide WHEN: Wed Nov 28 – Thu Dec 6 OPENING: Wed Nov 28 from 6pm

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 The overriding theme is home. What is it? You are keen to leap forth and make your mark in the world but there’s not much point in leaping into things that aren’t going to truly nourish your spirit and individuality. To speed things up, give yourselves an eternity to decide.

Pisces 19.02/20.03 Be sure not to be at sixes and sevens with your friends. There’s not much point in doing battle with your allies. That means when your emotions start running like a school of barracuda, come back to stillness, non-action and a very adult wisdom. This will bring you home.

Magazine Gallery

Fontanelle

83a Clubhouse Lane, Adelaide Withey Or Withoutey Fri Dec 7 – Sat Dec 22

26 Sixth St, Bowden End Of The World Sun Nov 25 – Fri Dec 21

Dan Withey’s newest intricate and unique paint works will make their way to Adelaide walls for the first time for latest solo exhibition Withey Or Withoutey this December. Blending together brain-numbingly detailed patterns with two-dimensional, rounded caricature, Withey’s painted portraiture dips its fingers into numerous genres including contemporary street art, cartoon, post-modernism and abstract. His latest series concerns a concept of bodily mutation, presenting eye-pleasing depictions of cartoon humans with subtle affixations like spores, horns and hairs. Opening: Fri Dec 7 from 6pm

Curator Brigid Noone has been thinking about the end of the world for a while now. In a month’s time the world, according to some Mayan predictions, will end, and as a result the Adelaide art director has put together a collaborative art exhibition to help Bowden’s Fontanelle gallery go out with a bang (if water vortexes and spontaneous volcanoes do end up occurring, that is). Talented locals Talitha Kennedy, Chloe Langford, Matthew Bradley, Amy Joy Watson, Anna Horne, Ben Leslie and more will clasp hands and pray for salvation from Sun Nov 25 in a series of mixed media works in sculpture, painting and photography alongside the official launch of the gallery’s new Tarp Space. You can get involved in this final farewell by heading along for a drink and a peruse. Think of the children!

Opening: Sun Nov 26 from 6pm

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Nique Established Melbourne label Nique are determined to win over the Adelaide market. Opening with a pop-up sale store, where for two months we enjoyed major discounts on all Nique’s stock, definitely helped extend the hand of friendship. A major renovation completely transformed the shop space to truly embody Nique’s concept store philosophy of eco-friendly and understated architecture. Nique’s creators Lucy and Nick Ennis have put as much belief into their new permanent residency on Rundle St as they do in their designs, stocking the new store with the brand new summer collection, the aptly titled No Time Like The Present. The collection continues to follow Nique’s ideals of simple designs, good quality fabrics and complementary colours, providing an Australian edge to Scandinavian-style tailoring and draping. The clothes aside, the level of enthusiasm and energy that an interstate boutique label has for the Adelaide market is the most exciting thing of all. Friends forever? I think so! Nique, 231 Rundle St. Call 8232 0882.

Burnside Pinterest Competition Spend most of your time trawling the internet for outfits you wish you could have? Don’t we all. Burnside Village want to give four lucky people their Christmas wish by offering $500 vouchers for simply windowshopping over the internet. To enter the competition, go to Pinterest and follow Burnside Village. Build a pinboard called ‘My Burnside Village Summer Pinboard’, give your outfit a description and re-pin the contest announcement. Pin a complete outfit using products you can purchase from Burnside Village and then email the URL of your board to coincierge@burnsidevillage. com.au with your name and contact number. You never know, maybe your perfect summer outfit will be picked up by The Satorialist himself ? Enter via pinterest.com/burnsidevillage/. For more information visit burnsidevillage. com.au. Entries close on Thu Nov 29 at 5pm. Nique Store Launch / Photos by Madeline Bonnin / To check out more photos, head to ripitup.com.au.

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DVD Reviews

The Cold Light Of Day

Win Competitions

Episodes: Series 2

Equinox

Roadshow/ABC / MA / 449 Mins

Umbrella Entertainment / PG / 82 Mins

The second, even harsher series (NB don’t read any further if you haven’t seen the first!) of American creators David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik’s smallscreen satire further studies the increasingly desperate situation of onceacclaimed, BAFTA-winning English TV writers Beverly and Sean Lincoln (Tamsin Greig of Black Books and Green Wing and Stephen Mangan of Green Wing and Dirk Gently), who are now virtually trapped in LA, working on the travesty of their original show (originally Lyman’s Boys, a History Boys imitation, it’s now entitled Pucks!) and fighting with the star of the thing who bitterly broke them up: Matt LeBlanc (again ‘as himself ’, sort of, and hugely funny as a not-so-dim master-manipulator). And, once more, it’s remarkable how anti-Americantelevision this truly is, with Beverly and Sean further sucked into becoming shallow shells of their former selves and LeBlanc gamely digging into how sick he is of being Joey into his later 40s, how little he respects the other Friends, all the celebrities he’s screwed, and so on, with a daring that leaves you wondering if he really knew quite what he was doing, and if he indeed does possess a penis that looks like some kind of mutant sea creature. Mad Dog Bradley

A Frankensteined-together horror flick with embarrassing credits (mostly FX legend Dennis Muren, one of three directors and later a key figure on The Empire Strikes Back, Jurassic Park and Super 8), this one started life as a no-budget short, shot in the Californian countryside in the later ‘60s, and was then ill-advisedly transformed by producer Jack H Harris into this sometimes enjoyable, sometimes interminable 1970 feature finally released on disc and packed with special features. A quartet of collegian bozos journey into the woods to meet a lecturer at his rural abode and find the place destroyed by an optical effect, a creepy ranger named Asmodeus (duh) lurking and, in a cave and guarded by a pensioner who giggles out-of-synch, the supposedly 1000-year-old ‘Book Of The Damned’ (obvious shades of the ‘Necronomicon’ from Sam Raimi’s later Evil Dead), which they steal, unlock and read out loud despite multiple suggestions they shouldn’t. And this unleashes the forces of darkness or an alternate universe or something, including a poorly plasticineanimated Kong-like demon, a flying devil with a winning grin, a gigantic Satan-ish whatsit with swirling slo-mo sleeves and, most successfully, a humungous forced-perspective blue-green caveman with a Homer Simpson aspect. Mad Dog Bradley

Warner / M / 90 Mins

Director Mabrouk El Mechri’s JCVD (2008) was a striking deconstruction of an action movie, and surely that one was what got him attached to this, a vacuous, wannabeHitchcockian potboiler which offers endless car chases and shootings to disguise the fact that it isn’t really about anything. Will (the notably dull Henry Cavill), a Wall Street trader in crisis, joins his vaguely estranged family for a Spanish sailing holiday, and while he gets along with mom Laurie (Caroline Goodall), brother Josh (Rafi Gavron) and Josh’s gal-pal Dara (Emma Hamilton), he’s soon clashing with his controlling dad Martin (a pissed-off-looking Bruce Willis). When the family is kidnapped, Will must face a small army of corrupt cops and murderous intelligence agents, as well as a mysterious woman (Sigourney Weaver) who might be trying to help him, all of whom seem to want a briefcase apparently full of something… terribly important. Whether this was intended as anything but a straight-toDVD job is unclear, but there are some nice locations here and a riff or two of suspense early on - before it all turns bland, silly and illogical, right down to a clichéd, by-thenumbers title that means just about nothing. Mad Dog Bradley

Neil Young / Viking / 500pp / $39.99

Bookshelf

Waging Heavy Peace

Like a story from Grampa in The Simpsons, iconic rock grouch Neil Young’s rambling excuse for a memoir makes for an infuriatingly dull plod. Almost willfully tedious, Waging Heavy Peace spends more time on inane asides such as Young marvelling at his computer’s word count function, recalling ‘60s pancakes and ranting about the American Automobile Association than it does narrating tales of his famous friends and classic songs. Despite taking time to rage against the “rambling intro speech” of a “recently successful artist” awarding Frank Sinatra a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1994 Grammys (errr… his name was Bono, Neil), one can’t help but draw parallels: here are 500 pages gearing up to a showcase that never occurs. Geffen once sued Young for making music “unrepresentative” of himself. Given this is one of the dullest musician memoirs of recent memory and can be summarised with the line “I like cars and some of my friends have died”, Viking might have cause to do the same. There’s more to the picture than meets the eye… but it sure ain’t here. Scott McLennan

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Baubles, Boobs And Burlesque Beauties The beautiful women of Burlesque Beauties are returning to Frome St’s Rhino Room with a special X-rated Christmas version of their sold-out 2012 Adelaide Fringe show. Baubles, Boobs And Burlesque Beauties features the talents of Radha Leigh, Lolly Dolly (current Ms Pin-Up SA), Dahlia DiFrisco, Svetlanka Seczkittenya and, direct from Hollywood, special guest cabaret star GiGi GoMore. Rip It Up speaks to blonde beauty and Miss Burlesque Adelaide 2011, Lyra La Belle (AKA Chrissie Brown). The Adelaide ex-pat recently returned from five months headlining in Hollywood and a season in Edinburgh. “The reason we’re performing at Rhino Room,” Brown begins, “is because all of our burlesque shows are heavily based in comedy so these will all be neo-burlesque performances – which are mostly comedy routines – combined with stand-up comic appearances. “Craig Egan, the man of comedy in Adelaide, will play the dapper vaudevillian-styled host,” she adds. “Straight burlesque is coming out of fashion and is moving back to that old school 1920s and ’30s comedy playfulness, which is the inspiration for this show.” It all sounds like a lot of fun! “For me, burlesque is an inclusive art form that transcends age, size and gender. Carla Conlin (AKA Dahlia DiFrisco) is a size 16 model and is absolutely beautiful

Friends With Kids Two best friends decide to have a child together while keeping their relationship platonic, so they can avoid the toll kids can take on romantic relationships. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of Friends With Kids on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Nov 29.

Episodes – Series Two The award-winning, critically-acclaimed comedy Episodes, written by visionary creators David Crane (Friends) and Jeffrey Klarik (Mad About You), returns for a second series. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Nov 29.

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and owning it!” Brown enthuses. “When Carla gets up on stage, she absolutely owns it and looks stunningly beautiful, which then allows other plus-sized women to realise they are pretty damn okay too! “Our predominantly female or coupled audience tend to leave feeling like they’ve had so much fun because they’re not actually looking for boobs and bums and naked women. We like to encompass the art of tease and reveal – with adhesive ‘pasties’ covering the nipples – but in a non-obvious way.” In her other life, Brown is a comedy publicist, hence why her burlesque performances are so connected to comedy. “Many of the girls working in the show are originally from Adelaide and all are based in the comedy industry. Our performance is a quick reveal that is not sexualised but is more sensual than anything. But there is nudity – because that’s what burlesque is – otherwise this would just be another cabaret show! “Craig and I have been working together on the media side of things for many years,”

Brown explains. “He’s going to be great on the night. Amos Gill, the 2012 Raw Comedy SA Winner, will also be getting up on the night and we’re hoping the awesome Dave Callan will come along too. We’ve worked with Dave many times; taught him a few dance routines that he performed with us in the last two Fringe seasons and he’s coming back with us in 2013.” Before heading off to rehearsals, Brown informed us that she’s been hired as a publicist for Hollywood’s Laugh Factory Comedy Club in 2013. “I’ll be working with Tim ‘The Toolman’ Taylor [Tim Allen], who I’ve met and is very nice, so I’m extremely excited about that!”

WHAT: Baubles, Boobs And Burlesque Beauties WHERE: Rhino Room WHEN: Fri Nov 30 from 11pm and Sat Dec 1 from 7.30pm

Your guide to the student experience. Something that always bothered me while studying was the constant battle between exams versus major assignments on the higher education playing field. While exams are often regarded as the be-all-and-end-all of your education, the sneaky major assignment can be just as malicious. While this may seem simple on paper to answer one question in about 3000 words, all it takes is one cock-up and you may as well start enrolling in the same course for next year. The problem with major assignments is that the scope they cover tends to go above and beyond the course work you have studied, meaning extra research is necessary in order to pass. Exams, on the other hand, generally test what you have studied throughout the course, and so if you know your stuff you (should) be okay. While I am generalising, as a rule exams for me are often the less stressful option. Firstly, you know what is expected of you and what materials you’ll be tested on… You just need to, like, learn it. Secondly, it’s all over in a couple of hours and you leave the exam hall with some realisation of how you went. Major assignments are far more subjective, as you can feel completely confident you nailed the topic only to find down the track you stuffed it completely. It’s also a more drawn-out process, as unless you have psychotic tendencies leaving a major essay until the last minute is not a good idea. In my experience the majority of the sympathy goes towards those who had exams, and not essays, which I think is unfair. Both are equally horrible. Take some time to feel for those embarking on the almighty major assignment. They need sympathy too. And remember, if you have any student info, events or deals that everyone should know about, email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au, Poke facebook.com/fasttimesripitupmag or Tweet @ FastTimesRIU and I’ll spread the word. Peace, Lachie.

Science + Rock = Ologism! I’m have no idea what an ‘ologism’ is, but it sounds kinda kinky… The press releases promises that it is what happens when science is communicated through rock, punk, pop and soul music. Intriguing. While I was always convinced that science was cool since Dexter’s Laboratory, Marty Lubran, Chris Krishna-Pillay and Darren Vogrig are stepping it up a notch to make it cooler. And you may actually learn something. While the closest I came to turning science into a song was condensing the first 20 elements into one long word - HHeLiBeBoCNOFNeNaMgAlSiPSClArKCa (those of you studying for Chemistry exams, you’re welcome…), these guys in the past have sung about air showers, lost bees, cyber noses, loving potatoes, angry ants and the island of stability with scientific accuracy. A good one for those who were failed by the textbooks and need a new method to study for their physics supp exams, or are looking at working on alternative teaching methods of their own. Perhaps the greatest scientific discovery of the night will be seeing if one group really can do rock, punk, pop and soul music justice? WHAT: Science + Rock = Ologism! WHEN: Tue Nov 27, 6.30pm WHERE: The Science Exchange, 55 Exchange Place COST: GA $10, Concession $7.50 INFO & BOOKINGS: riaus.org/events/ologism/

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Carclew’s Fifth Quarter Apparently people who use the left side of their brain more than the right use logic, have attention to detail, are obsessed with facts, maths and science and are realitybased. Those that use the right side of the brain use feelings, are “big picture” orientated, are imaginative, focus on the present and future and take risks. The (flawless) testing system I found online told me I was in the latter category (YOLO!). Carcew have Fifth Quarter, a program to help creatives like me. Fifth Quarter assists artists to develop the business side of their practice, which all too often gets neglected in favour of the creative side of their practise. Through Fifth Quarter, creatives can learn important business methods to ensure that their career as an artist is economically viable, meaning that it will actually make money so the artist can survive. Fifth Quarter is about collaborations between the art and business worlds where ideas and innovative business models are tailored to the individual or group artist through a variety of packages and programs. Through Fifth Quarter, participating artists will become significant contributors to Adelaide’s cultural industry both economically and creatively, creating a sense of community between the often estranged art and business worlds. Expressions of interest are upon until 5pm Fri Nov 30. For more info and guidelines visit fifthquarter.org.au.

Au Pair Placements There are plenty of reasons for wanting to look after other people’s kids as an au pair. You can cure premature cluckiness, get over your Mary Poppins obsessions, travel overseas and get a rare cultural experience all at the same time. Student Placement Australian New Zealand (SPANZ) are holding a competition to offer a free placement for a student in either the USA, France, Germany and Spain. Au pairs will be placed with (nice) families in these countries and weekly pocket money of either 90 Euro or US$200, their own room

and meals. To be eligible students must be over 18, have at least 200 hours experience in caring for children, be a secondary school graduate, a non-smoker, able to drive and speak English. If Joan Cusack could look after Wednesday, Pugsley and Pubert in The Addams Family Values then surely you can handle it too? To enter the competition and learn more about SPANZ programs and host families visit aupair.org.au.

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Taken For A Fool (Highway 125)

Crystal Castles Sad Eyes (Shock/Fiction)

After their Gothic love-in with The Cure’s Robert Smith on 2010 single Not In Love, it’s interesting to find Toronto duo Crystal Castles shifting their retrospective attention to another pivotal British ‘80s act with Sad Eyes. Sad Eyes might be one of the digital punks’ most straightforward singles, but the new single from Crystal Castles III cleverly and subliminally draws influence from the stabbing synths of Pet Shop Boys’ euphoric heartbreaker It’s A Sin. Like The Dark Knight Rises, this taste of Crystal Castles III proves a third act can be just as urgent, dark, hypnotic and beautiful as an opening salvo. Just say CC.

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Chvrches The Mother We Share (Create/Control)

If Crystal Castles’ deadened eyes still give you more heebie-jeebies than the repellent crackle of millipedes underfoot, Chvrches may prove an enticing antidote. Possessing a similarly eerie digital core but mixing in the sweetness and light of The Sundays and Cocteau Twins, the Glasgow trio’s The Mother We Share sounds like a lost Factory Records seven inch (heck, even their birth names - Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and Lauren Mayberry – suggest they were born with a FAC number instead of a navel). As slippery and exciting as that Loch Ness beastie, this is V good.

Led Zeppelin Celebration Day (Warner)

It had been a long time since they’d rock‘n’rolled, but Led Zeppelin’s one-off reunion at London’s O2 in 2007 saw the musical giants rise from the depths like a reawakened Gojira. More than 20 years since their bleak dog of a performance at Live Aid, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page

and John Paul Jones put that woeful 1985 chapter behind them with an inspired new coda. Drawing from all quarters of their catalogue, the transfixing set even has the reticent Plant admitting “It feels pretty good up here” while ad-libbing during Page’s woozy slide guitar on In My Time Of Dying. The foundations of heavy metal are evident in Page’s guitar crunch on Ramble On, while the 68-year-old casts a similarly magick spell for Dazed And Confused’s solo. No Quarter finds Plant howling like the ‘dogs of doom’ he’s singing about, backed up by Jones’ keyboards that are still as creepy as a damp crypt. Despite Plant declaring “No more Stairway To Heaven for me” in 1988, Page picks out the delicate intro before the band launch into a wondrous version as they reach the show’s peak, with Whole Lotta Love and Rock And Roll finally sealing this rock catacomb tightly shut. Trying to pick a highpoint is as hard as convincing Plant to take this formidable beast on the road again, but for this one night the O2 became a house of the holy. Scott McLennan

Warning: a sloth of grizzlies with weapons are on the loose and they are coming for you. By you, I mean your stereo. And by sloth of grizzlies, I mean bears. Introducing Bears With Guns from Parkes, New South Wales – that’s right, the home of The Dish. That definitely adds a level of cool credibility to these bears. Taken For A Fool brings some tasty offerings of dynamic and upbeat folk rock melodies into your world and it’s here to stay. These little forest creatures have put together this joyous EP armed with a mandolin, ukulele and other festive instruments which I cannot pronounce. How exotic. Across this collection we crescendo from acoustically concocted tunes, right through to rock and bluesbased tracks, showing the band’s great diversity as a collaboration across the five tracks. As a contrast to lush instrumentations we have these husky powerhouse vocals that contort perfectly to the sound, similar to that of Bonjah. These six scruffy drop bears are spreading their musical juices with their fun-sized instruments around the country and receiving a tremendous response. So get around these ragged little bears, I’m afraid you will be taken for a fool if you don’t. Sharni Honor

Purity Ring Lofticries (4AD/Remote Control)

If you love Canadian duos crafting synth pop icicles even more than a hearty caribou steak, it’s time to sink your teeth into Purity Ring. Based a couple of hundred miles down the road in Montreal, Megan James’ vocals might have a brighter, feminine sheen than Crystal Castles, but there are still shadows lurking in her offsider Corin Roddick’s production. Lofticries contains inspired flashes of the Sneaker Pimps’ ‘90s output, with the results as crisp and clean as a defrosting Yukon stream.

Ruby Rose & Gary Go Guilty Pleasure (UMA)

I don’t want to sound like a whining asshat, but some weeks this column is torturous to pull together. Sure it’s a simple routine (highlight the latest hipster act of the moment, rave about some bafflingly dumb-arse Katy Perry single, unleash another unpleasant wave of venom in the direction of Van She), but it isn’t always easy to find a truly heinous new cut to defile. It’s for this very reason I must this week wholeheartedly thank the questionably talented Ruby Rose for bringing Guilty Pleasure into the world, since it indisputably sucks harder than a giant squid with a malt milkshake. With an opening line like ‘Suicide, I’m on a mission…’, even Rose’s own past attempts at attention-seeking have rarely been this ill-considered or unsavoury. Ruby, don’t take your guff to town.

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Sigur Rós Live Review

Thebarton Theatre, Thu Nov 15 Review by Sam Reynolds Pics by Benon Koebsch

The difference between experiencing music that’s been recorded and music played live in front of your eyes is quite vast, though not always immediately noticeable. Invariably, listening to an artist in both formats will evoke different feelings; you’ll listen to the recording, feel influenced by it and want to experience it without the barrier of headphones or sound systems. This translation is so important for making a successful live show, especially for a band like Icelandic five-piece Sigur Rós. Let it firstly be said that Sigur Rós are a once-in-a-generation collective. They’ve established a sound known as post-rock to many, and in their own, other-worldly way, they went and made it their own. It’s not often you get to experience a show like this, particularly in Adelaide, and upon their arrival at a packed Thebarton Theatre, it is clear that everyone had prepared to be emotionally affected in one way or another. As the band arrives on stage to a stringladen opening, the reverence begins. To put it simply, I have never seen an audience at a live music show be so still, observant and enveloped by a band than on this occasion.

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Easy Star All-Stars

Poor Moon

Easy Star’s Thrillah

Poor Moon

(Easy Star/The Planet Company)

(Inertia)

The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts

Efterklang Piramida (Remote Control/4AD)

(Roadrunner)

When describing the concept behind Easy Star All-Stars’ reggae-influenced re-envisioning of classic albums, it’s easy to write it off as something kitschy or novel or even a bit of a party joke. So far, the New York crew, led by Michael Goldwasser along with a rotating cast of many, have offered versions of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, Radiohead’s OK Computer and even The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s… It may be easy to poke fun, but the albums offered thus far (as well as one or two all-original longplayers) are actually surprisingly good, presenting a whole new way to look at the classic tunes. Now they’ve taken on one of the biggest albums of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and it’s actually an interesting piece of work. While the other Easy Star offerings have all been separated stylistically from reggae, MJ’s funky grooves mean this one’s a bit less of a stretch. The result is pretty impressive, with the tunes being faithful to Jackson and to reggae. I think there’s plenty here to enjoy, and MJ fans will like it just as much as diehard reggae people. Luke Balzan

Heads lay still throughout the theatre as the band go through a number of tracks from albums new and old. Namely, the set’s inclusion of songs from the band’s halcyon days of the early 2000s sent emotions aflutter. Tracks like Glósóli, Olsen Olsen, Svef-N-Genglar and Hoppípolla all gained their own meanings through the heavy light sequences and beautifullyproduced projections backing the 11-piece group, inclusive of string and horn sections. Frontman Jónsi Birgisson at one point takes command of the crowd, pausing for nearly 30 seconds with the band, as silence rings out throughout the old town hall. One truly memorable, evocative moment from the evening. He interacts only once with the crowd, thanking them before introducing final song Brennisteinn, before returning with the band to finish with Ekki Mukk and Popplagið, producing one emotional encore. There were tears and smiles, and a whole gamut of mixed feelings floating throughout the sold-out crowd at the show’s conclusion. This night proved that listening to music serves one purpose only: to be an experience. In a live setting, this experience is not only heard and seen, but felt, both emotionally and physically. And as a live music experience, this show is the most emotionally-charged that the artform can offer. In a word: perfection.

Okay, so I’ve realised that across my lifespan of reviews that I make many references to Fleet Foxes; their harmonies, song formation and vocal structure are just so distinct. So when these Poor Moon sound-butterflies flittered on down to my cochlea, they also stoked a stunning resemblance to Fleet Foxes - so much so it sent my pink brain into a mind-boggled state. But have no fear, Google is here. As it turns out, Poor Moon is indeed a sideproject for Christian Wargo and Casey Westcott from Fleet Foxes, which would explain my complex brain witterings. After giving myself a little high five and a victory beverage, I proceed to review the record. Clouds Below, the first track on the record, is a little gem - have a whistle along to this cheery springtime tune. As the record progresses, things get a little darker. Poor Moon flirts with the boundary of becoming a little too inaccessible, but this works in its favour. It’s not just a fairyflossed folk record of things that sound pretty, it has some depth and some visceral layers which you can relate to if you dare. Get aboard your rocket ship and take a cheeky trip to outer space where you can orbit Poor Moon as many times as you like. Sharni Honor

When you listen to a band long enough you can begin to pick what stage they are at in their lives. The Amity Affliction’s early album Severed Ties was recorded when they were still young, so it has a real party vibe to it. By the time it came to record Youngbloods, things had changed in their life and it was much darker - it turns out singer and chief songwriter Joel Birch was actually suffering from depression prior to its recording and had tried to commit suicide. This leaves us at new album Chasing Ghosts, an album that unashamedly and candidly addresses the issue of suicide. The departure of guitarist Clint Splattering since Youngbloods makes for a noticeable absence. With one less songwriter and a greater workload on the rest of the band’s writers, the songs sound a little samey after a while and it feels like a piece is missing - they are much more basic and stripped down. The problem The Amity Affliction are facing at the moment is that they are at the top of the mountain in Australia – people expect great things from them. Chasing Ghosts isn’t a bad album, it just isn’t as good as Youngbloods. It feels like a step back from where they were. Michael Wickham

As St Anger, Chinese Democracy and Smile proved, sometimes the story behind an album is even more exciting than the music itself. Danes Efterklang have risked a similar outcome by recording Piramida in a Russian ghost town of the same name. While the term ‘ghost town’ generally conjures images of decaying service stations, rusting road signs and dusty tumbleweeds, Piramida’s proximity to the North Pole ensures this abandoned settlement looks more like a snap-frozen architectural division of McCain Foods. Efterklang made the most of this frigid, vacant locale, recording percussion on discarded oil drums and metal doors. Opening with Hollow Mountain, a song so maudlin it could be the sound of Jarvis Cocker shedding a tear after accidentally charring his original copy of Scott 4 with ciggie ash, Piramida sometimes resembles Matt Berninger performing Arctic Circle lullabies. Ice ice baby. Scott McLennan

Metz Metz (Sub Pop)

At the time of writing this there are virtually no reviews of this record anywhere, save for a handful of shitty blogs written by people who can’t spell and don’t use punctuation. From what I can surmise, Metz is a trio straight outta Canada who are really, really loud. With a reputation for frenetic underground performances, the band was picked up by Sub Pop. Their debut is a sonic blitzkrieg that barrages the listener with heavily distorted guitar riffs, screeching vocals and pummelled drum kits. Hell, even the feedback being bounced back and forth could be considered an instrument. Metz opens with a gut punch followed by a swift kick to the balls, but after the third track, Metz becomes more of a bore than a thrill to listen to. With titles like Headache, Sad Pricks, Nausea, Wet Blanket and Wasted, the songs seem more like whiny complaints than plights of youthful angst. Ryan Lynch

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Beautiful Fools EP Launch

Survivinsg Shark

Following their formation in 2011, local act Beautiful Fools now have a self-titled EP to call their own which they’ll be launching at Jive this Sat Nov 24 with support acts The Informers and Paige & The Ghost. Comprised of five indie-pop anthems crafted under the tutelage of US producer Matt Malpass, head on down for the first listen from 8pm or stream the entire release at soundcloud.com/ beautifulfools. Tickets will be at the door.

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We’re all too familiar with the unfair stigma attached to Australian rock music. Bands are often typecast alongside AC/DC cover acts, performing to a regular pub clientele who, if it weren’t for the beer, would have slipped a dollar into the jukebox to hear the same song. Once upon a time, Australian rock music was cool. It’s been some time since that trend was popular amongst the contentious young listener. But for many who remember when You Am I were the hottest property in the country, and a Beasts Of Bourbon show about as much fun as you could have with your pants around your ankles, there’s plenty of people still playing old school rock well. Surviving Sharks slot comfortably into that category. Having consolidated as a trio, the year-and-a-half the band have been together has been some of the best

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time that drummer Sean Kemp has spent in music. Speaking with Rip It Up ahead of the launch of the band’s debut EP, Kemp revealed that this release would be just a taste of grander things to come from the band, but there was always the need for an initial introduction. “With this EP, it’s just the beginning,” Kemp says. “Drew [Kemp, guitarist] and Josh [Biggs, bassist] are the conductors of the band, and then percussively I’m bringing what I know to make it sound as tight as I can. As far as these songs go, this is an introduction. Drew has written another 30 or so songs that we’ve just got lingering around. We’ve started playing a few of those live too, and I’m really looking forward to recording them.” With all three members having previously played the role of lead singer in the past, one of the strengths of Surviving Sharks, as well as one of their key points of difference, are the vocal harmonies that lend themselves to different songs. “We just want to have a good, lush rock

sound,” Kemp explains of their collective vision. “We strive for it, in our harmonies, even with the instruments we play and how we play them. A lot of this music brings together things that we’ve learned as songwriters over the years. It’s a bit old school, but that’s our tastes. Not that we want to sound like the people we’re influenced by, but the bands’ we listened to did things a certain way, and we like to do the same thing. Jam, coming together to work on songs organically, then doing our homework so we know what we’re doing.” And while the trio may be balancing work and family with their music, they’ve found Adelaide the perfect scene to continue to grow what they do best.

Gemini Downs Film Clip Party Gemini Downs have been honing a new single and video clip of late entitled Jangle, and to celebrate its release they want you to come along to their film clip release party at Jive on Fri Dec 7. The party will include a support set from Swimming, circus performers, a magician, a comedian and about 40 of their friends performing a rehearsed dance routine. Sounds like it’s going to be pretty epic. Stay tuned for more details.

WHO: Surviving Sharks, Squeaker, Imogen Brave & A Film For The Future WHAT: Surviving Sharks EP launch WHERE: The Ed Castle WHEN: Fri Nov 30 from 9pm

The Salvadors

Monica revels in an American west coast glory – thundering down Route 66 into a sunset. Straight And Narrow has the Holy Drunken Fisherman pleasing bass vocals of 50s (Independent) classics like Eddie Cochran’s Summertime Blues, paired with Overdosed on Hungry Kids a killer church organ that could get you bopping in your pew. Of Hungary or Gypsy & The Harmonies are their strong Cat? Then stay far away from point, so brace yourself for this. This is not an album for some chills. recovering indie pop addicts. Unfortunately, the lacklustre It’s a gateway album into other catchy summer records, and it’s title track sneaks in with its all downhill from there. You’ll looooong instrumental tail, and never be happy again without a jars the pace of the album. The Salvadors also chose to jingle-jangle rhythm skipping wind down the album with through your head. Sunday Party Blues, instead of Holy Drunken Fisherman as a whole could be the (lengthy) wrapping it up in a shower of fireworks. Pacing issues aside, national anthem of a jungle Holy Drunken Fisherman will nation in the centre of a be a happy, tanned arm around desert island. The Salvadors your sun-drunk shoulders. must have given themselves Ilona Wallace sunstroke recording this. Santa

The Transatlantics Album Launch You read our interview with them last week, now it’s time to turn your sights to the band themselves as The Transatlantics hit the stage this Fri Nov 23 at the Gov from 7.30pm to launch their sophomore record Find My Way Home. There will also be additional tunes from support acts like The Bearded Gypsy Band, Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band and Gentlemen’s Record Club DJs. Tickets are available from Moshtix and the venue.

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