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See the US metal exponents who defy categorisation at Fowler’s Live on Sat Dec 1 with In Hearts Wake and Storm The Sky.
Polishing their energy dome cones in anticipation of playing Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Sun Dec 2 with Simple Minds and The Church.
Taking place at Barossa Valley’s Peter Lehmann Wines on Sat Dec 1 with Hoodoo Gurus (pictured), Baby Animals, The Angels and more.
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Catch the Melbourne-based sextet with three lead vocalists when they play Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel on Sat Dec 1 when they launch The Drifter’s Dawn, their second album.
Witness the Brisbane-based post punk genre mashers when they play Grote St’s Hotel Metro on Sun Dec 2 with Beige Abrasion, Weird Weekend and The Sunbirds.
See the punks from Long Beach, California, when they perform at Adelaide Uni Bar on Fri Nov 30 alongside Hightime and Unicorns.
Speeding along this week... THE SELECTER – don’t miss the legendary UK ska act at the Governor Hindmarsh on Thu Nov 29 when they play all their hits and more.
THE AUDREYS – appearing at the first Elder Unplugged series at North Tce’s Elder Hall on Fri Nov 30 with Myles Mayo and Under The Hood with pop-up bars on the outside lawns from 5.30pm.
REEL BIG FISH – catch the US ska punk outfit at HQ on Tue Dec 4 with fellow Americans Goldfinger and Zebrahead.
ELECTRIC EMPIRE – see the eclectic quartet, fresh from playing London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall, when they ply their musical wares at Currie St’s Ed Castle on Sat Dec 1.
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Back In Power Fear not, Cat Power fans. Chan Marshall, AKA Cat Power, seems to have shaken off those bankruptcy issues that she wrote about on Instagram the other week. In a typically caps-locked message she said that she might
have to cancel her European tour because of bankruptcy and ongoing health issues. Golden Plains’ peeps must have worked some magic, because she has now announced a sideshow that comes to Her Majesty’s Theatre on Mon Feb 25. Expect a powerful show featuring songs from her recently-released album Sun, her first collection of original material in seven years. Tickets: bass.net.au.
DEC 6 Pretty sure this joke has been made before, but RONAN KEATING inspires that special CBF factor. Wish he would say nothing at all? Too bad, he’s coming to play a show with Brian McFadden at Adelaide Fringe venue the Depot on Sun Mar 10. Tickets: venuetix.com.au.
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Half Way There Who: Grinspoon / Where: The Governor Hindmarsh / When: Thu Mar 21
Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills Grinspoon might have kept fans waiting for the tour announcement to support their seventh studio album Black Rabbits, saying on Twitter that there would be a special announcement in late October and then postponing things past mid-November so that they could get everything just right, but
now that the tour has been announced, all is forgiven. Lismore four Phil Jamieson, Pat Davern, Kristian Hopes and Joe Hansen kick of 2013 playing all of their hits and a few new tracks on the Big Day Out, then embark on the Black Rabbits headline tour with a rejigged live show. Grinners!
Thanks to Tame Impala’s success, there’s a lot of attention around the world on Perth’s music scene and now something very different comes this way care of rock and indie four-piece Mezzanine, whose influences include Pixies, Sonic Youth and Pavement. Their latest single Big Style, taken from their Vile Horizons EP, is just over two minutes’ worth of indie punk infused with distortion and lust. You might have seen them playing with Dappled Cities, Hunting Grounds, British India, The Medics, Even or Emperors – catch them headlining on Sat Dec 15 at the Crown & Anchor with Last Days Of Kali.
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They say you can’t get lost in this city, but come February, it will be time to try. The first act for the Lost City Festival that took over Queen’s Theatre last year has cropped up. Expect dreamy, eternal sounds from Austin artist Stefanie Franciotti and her outfit SLEEP ∞ OVER on Sat Feb 2.
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King Hits Who: Lisa Miller / Where: The Wheatsheaf / When: Fri Dec 14
Miller’s Misses Lisa Miller has scratched a long-time itch with her seventh solo album Meet The Misses. It reprises her own songs from the longunavailable first two albums - Quiet Girl With A Credit Card from 1996 and As Far As A Life Goes from 1999. The new album is not an attempt to recreate the old albums but rather to find a new way of looking at these songs, Miller says. “I hesitated to make this record for a long time,” she says. “I didn’t imagine anyone but
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me would see the point in just re-recording these albums again. But these songs represent an important chunk of my creative life, and I felt there was always going to be this blip or empty spot. I got tired of being angry and wanting to explain this frustration, this old nagging elephant in the corner. “So instead I had a good look at these songs, played around with them and kept the ones that still felt real or right or just worked. And when the recording was finished, I realised that the old elephant had left the building, and I wasn’t angry anymore. This is a recording that I had to make. It’s not meant to change anyone else’s life but mine.”
Here’s some pop trivia: Carole King’s 1971 album Tapestry held the number one spot in the US for 15 consecutive weeks and stayed in the charts for almost six years, selling 25 million copies worldwide. Until Michael Jackson’s Thriller came along in 1982 it was the biggest selling pop album ever by a solo artist in the US. King’s songwriting prowess brought her hits such as I Feel The Earth Move, Jazz Man and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, not to mention the hits other artists enjoyed with her songs You’ve Got A Friend, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow and The Locomotion. More than 40 years later she’s still regarded as a powerful performer – catch her at Festival Theatre on Wed Feb 20. Tickets: bass.net.au.
Just Super Adelaide has often made The Superjesus feel all warm and fuzzy. So following a 10-year hiatus when the band focused on other musical and personal journeys, The Superjesus are throwing the warm and fuzzies back our way with a oneoff exclusive show on Fri Feb 1 at the Gov. The show features the line-up of Sarah McLeod, Tim Henwood, Paul Berryman and Stuart Rudd. There are rumours of a national tour in mid-2013, but for now the four are pretty excited about getting together for the first time in a long time and performing a show where it all began – Adelaide. Tickets: moshtix.com.au.
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Black Sheep Wo-Massive WOMADelaide’s huge line-up list is now complete, with artists from Mali to Colombia, Japan and beyond added to the Botanic Pk event which runs from Fri Mar 8 to Mon Mar 11. Check womadelaide.com.au for ticket details and the full line-up, which includes: Adnaan Baraky, Amparo Sánchez, Arpaka
Dance Company, Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba, The Bird, Circolombia, Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes, DJ ClicK, East Journey, Golonka, Goran Bregovic & His Weddings & Funerals Orchestra, Heather Frahn & The Moonlight Tide, The Herbaliser DJs, Illapu, Kingfisha, LA-33, Mia Dyson, Novalima, Paul Ubana Jones, Salif Keita, Shunsuke Kimura & Etsuro Ono, Sing Sing, Tim Rogers & The Bamboos, Tubular Bells For Two and Vieux Farka Toure.
The Bad Shepherds pitch themselves as something more than the kind of kooky house band on Spicks And Specks that yodelled hard rock songs. They play punk songs on folk instruments, not as a gag, but because they really like the noise. They do songs by The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers, The Jam, Sham 69, The Undertones, The Ramones, The Buzzcocks, The Specials, Talking Heads, Squeeze and even Kraftwerk, giving the songs a kind of Celtic feel and sticking the odd reel and jig here and there. Sometimes they just thrash – see them on Sun Apr 28 at The Gov. Tickets: thegov.com.au.
Guy Sebastian killed it in the Australian charts ages ago, but now he’s made some kind of inroad into the US charts. Battle Scars, his single with Lupe Fiasco, took out number one on the ARIA singles chart for six consecutive weeks and peaked at number one on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Chart. Fresh from performing on David Letterman with Fiasco, Sebastian has announced a tour that comes to Thebarton Theatre on Fri Apr 26. Tickets: venuetix.com.au.
On yer bike, BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – the British band’s Thebarton Theatre show on Thu Jan 3 has been cancelled “due to unforeseen circumstances”. Hit up VenueTix for a refund.
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Escape From New York Although New York songwriter Regina Spektor is sitting backstage at the Ruth Eckerd Hall in Tampa, a performing arts venue that resembles a luxurious giant clam shell embedded with 2000 seats, her mind is 8000 kilometres away. The Russian-born 32-year-old is detailing to Rip It Up her inaugural visit to St Petersburg’s breathtakingly expansive Hermitage Museum in July. stablished by Catherine The Great in 1764, the picturesque waterfront institution houses countless antiquities and the largest collection of paintings in the world. Immigrating to the United States as a nineyear-old in August 1989, Spektor’s recent return to her motherland offered her the first chance to visit the celebrated museum. “It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to visit the Hermitage, as I never had the chance to go to St Petersburg while we actually still lived in Russia. I’ve read a lot about it and I knew some of the history and I even avoided the movie Russian Ark, because I didn’t want my first time seeing the museum to be on a screen, I wanted to actually be there. To really see the Hermitage you’d probably have to spend a year there, but the promoter hooked us up with this special tour of the museum with a super-passionate guide. We still had the chance to feel it and take it in. I wasn’t prepared for how beautiful St Petersburg is. It’s striking – the river, the colours of the palaces… it’s just incredible.” Since her last appearance in Adelaide,
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Spektor has loved (wedding long-time partner and tour mate Jack Dishel in December last year) and lost (her touring cellist Daniel Cho drowned in Lake Geneva in 2010), but the pianist effortlessly brushes off questions she deems too personal with a cheery giggle. “I don’t like to talk about private things,” she subtly admonishes when asked about her wedding reception’s music, before conceding she’s looking forward to celebrating her first wedding anniversary while touring Australia with Dishel. “It’s fun to have summer in the winter! It’s a really good time to escape New York, spending December in Australia.” Considering her hit albums Begin To Hope, Far and this year’s What We Saw From The Cheap Seats have filtered everyday minutiae through her perceptive blue eyes, Spektor’s reticence is interesting. Having tackled loneliness, heartache and death in her lyrics, fans already feel a strong connection to the Russian-born performer thanks to her revealing songs. They might be wrapped in Spektor’s habitual musical idiosyncrasies, but eloquent tracks such as The Call, Samson and latest single How whisper to listeners like a best friend. The flippant lo-fi punk thrills of Begin To Hope’s That Time can’t hide the fact it’s ostensibly a jarring song about a partner’s drug overdose, but Spektor ducks addressing her own drug experiences. “I think in our world it’s so hard to tell what is a drug and what isn’t. All around us people are having a hard time and they sometimes lean on things. Sometimes I think, ‘Wow - all of America is running on coffee, or money, or the internet’. It’s kind of a universal and ancient thing to want to lean on something, but you don’t want to lean on
it too much. I think people need to try to find their way with things.” So what are the little luxuries that get Regina Spektor through the day? “Luxuries? I think time is the greatest luxury. It’s really precious when we have it, so I think time well spent is a luxury.” Time isn’t something Spektor has had a great deal of since 2004’s major label debut Soviet Kitsch. Since then she’s contributed to multiple Hollywood soundtracks, performed for US President Barack Obama and commenced work on the score for Broadway musical Beauty, a modern retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. When Rip It Up spoke to Spektor two years ago, she suggested that she’d completed 70 percent of Beauty’s music. “Well since we last spoke it’s now 50 percent!” she laughs. “Broadway is interesting - I feel that the more we work on it, the less done it is. It is an amazing process though and at this point I should give up gauging how ‘done’ Beauty is, because obviously I can’t tell any more if that’s what I said last time we spoke. I am really excited about how much I’ve been learning through the process of making it - it’s been fascinating to learn about how Broadway works.” Does putting all this love and effort into Beauty have a negative effect when it comes to attempting to write non-Beauty songs? “No, I actually believe the more creative things you do the more you will be inspired and the more you can achieve. If you are making progress in some aspects of art then all of a sudden it will make you do five other things you didn’t even realise you wanted to do. It’s good to branch out and do different things and the more you do, the better. Art begets art, I think.”
Summer In The City During her last visit to Adelaide in April 2010, Regina Spektor marvelled at the Central Market. Does the songwriter keep notes of the special places she discovers so she can return to them on subsequent tours? “You know I really wish I did, but I’m unfortunately not organised enough to do that. I remember the Central Market – it’s the big indoor market, isn’t it? I didn’t have any record of it but you bringing it up flooded with me memories. That’s good – at least my brain works. I enjoyed the art museum in Adelaide, too.”
Spektor’s currently finalising her contribution to another long-mooted project. After Peter Gabriel released his Scratch My Back covers album in 2010 (featuring a version of Begin To Hope’s Apres Moi), he invited the acts he’d covered to perform one of his songs in return. Spektor says she has almost completed her submission. “I’m actually in the process of working on a track and I’ve been trying to figure out my own way into it. Cover songs are really hard for me in the first place – it’s not my forte and I didn’t grow up playing a lot of them. I hesitate to name which song I’m doing in case I fuck it up and it never gets released - I can’t tell you what it is in case it changes and I’ve given you false information. Hopefully when I come back from all the tours right after Christmas I can record it, so I am excited about it.” WHO: Regina Spektor WHAT: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats (Warner) WHERE: AEC Theatre WHEN: Sun Dec 16
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Sine O’ The Times What’s the perfect formula for hype? You’d think Alt-J – the British quartet of university alumni heralded as “the new Radiohead” who secured the Mercury Prize this year for their debut album An Awesome Wave - would know something about that. But underneath the Apple Mac keyboard shortcuts and elusive genre-dodging and triangle trends, the band, in earnest, really don’t know how it got to this point. ccording to drummer Thom Green, speaking to Rip It Up from Sydney as part of a whirlwind promo tour, Alt-J “never tried to be a big band”. “We were, and are, pretty surprised [by the feedback],” Green muses. “We hoped people would hear [An Awesome Wave] and hoped it would do well, but we didn’t even know what that meant. We’re trying to get used to it, and we’re just lucky, I think. We never tried to be a big band, we were just a bunch of friends making things and we wrote the music we wanted to hear.” In fact, everything about Alt-J makes for the perfect story of the anti-band. Despite worldwide praise for creating truly innovative music, the band are only just getting used to wearing their laurels. “We didn’t even realise we were writing an album at the time,” Green admits. “We were friends at university, found out each other were playing these different instruments, got together and started messing around and gradually started crafting songs. We’d never done it before, and the structures were weird and we didn’t know what we were doing. But
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we took it very seriously and wanted the songs to each have character and be individual.” Perhaps this natural aptitude for music can be attributed to their creative backgrounds. Three of Alt-J’s members were studying visual arts at university at the time of the album’s formation, the other studying English Literature. Being embedded in these creative mindsets helped the band craft the songs – they didn’t go into recording as a band, they instead treated An Awesome Wave as an art project. “Everything we did was like a piece of work, an artwork. The way we made decisions was very similar to if we were collaborating and making work in a studio, in that you have to put your ego aside and do what’s best for the work. It’s not for me to decide whether it’s art or not, but we were definitely making art.” Perhaps this artistic consideration gives An Awesome Wave something of an interesting narrative from start to finish. If you listen to the entire record you’ll find these quiet, minimalist interludes in between big singles like the skittish Breezeblocks and grimy Dissolve Me, put there almost to refresh you before hauling into the next epic wave of trip-hop. Green agrees with the observation, calling these tunes “palate cleansers”. “We treated the album as a whole and made sure each part of the album followed the last. The interludes in between each track are there to almost cleanse the palate if you listen to it in order, to give you a moment to figure out what you’d just heard, maybe. We wanted it to be a fluid listening experience, and it definitely has a theme running through it musically. It took a long time to get the order right.” It’s not just the fans that are so taken with Alt-J. Mumford & Sons recently covered the band’s single Tesselate, leading Rip It Up
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to inquire as to what song Alt-J themselves would like to cover. If you were expecting something obscurely indie, think again. “Do you know a band called Meshuggah? They’re a black metal band, and I’d pick a Meshuggah song. Or maybe a Skrillex track I think Skrillex is brilliant.” WHO: Alt-J WHAT: An Awesome Wave (Liberation) WHERE: Laneway Festival, Fowler’s Courtyard WHEN: Fri Feb 8
Black Metal Alt-J’s hipster fanbase might be shocked to learn what music Thom Green used to play prior to Alt-J’s success. “I used to play in metal bands,” he admits happily. “I’d have the whole double kick, cymbals everywhere and all that shit. I think I got the skill from doing that because it’s so fast and technical, and after that I could play in Alt-J, which is a lot more disciplined, minimal and creative. You have to try and make normal drums sound different.”
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Still Ill Ever been mistaken for a neo-Nazi because of your cropped haircut? The Mark Of Cain’s John Scott knows the feeling. Back with new album Songs Of The Third And Fifth after a protracted absence, Scott recalls his Adelaide band were victims of baseless gossip when they emerged in the ‘80s. Back then there was more of that bonehead National Front stuff and a rumour went around the gamers – the guys who played board games at Adelaide Uni - that we rehearsed with a big Swastika hung up behind us in the rehearsal shed,” Scott says. “Once when we played with the Rollins Band in Melbourne, a security notice had gone around Melbourne Uni: ‘A band called The Mark Of Cain is playing with the Rollins Band tonight. They are known to be a skinhead band and there could be a lot of skinheads in the crowd.’ It was like they were preparing for the invasion of the knuckleheads, but of course it didn’t happen. I think it was more about people making their own mind up from our short hair.” From Battlesick in 1989 through to This Is This in 2001, The Mark Of Cain’s six albums were loaded with astute lyrics, steadfast resolve and simmering power. In their decade-long absence, the trio’s disciplined sound and commanding viewpoint has been sorely missing from the airwaves. Scott says Songs Of The Third And Fifth’s laboured gestation has been gruelling. “I didn’t think it would ever get done. I had a relationship breaking down in the background, so it was difficult to have the energy to force myself to go in [to the studio], but I felt worse for the people who
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were waiting so long for it.” Was there ever a time when you thought about giving up? “No, it was just trying to find the time to get in there and sort out the bullshit in my life. The balance of work and the time involved in this did make it difficult – I wasn’t finding myself mentally ready to go in [to the studio] every night of the week.” During the early stages of putting together Songs Of The Third And Fifth, Scott was working in the defence industry. The songwriter has since quit his engineering role, but says he never questioned whether his employment was at odds with the passionate anti-war lyrics he’s snarled for 25 years. “Nah, because I might be anti-war but I definitely appreciate the sacrifices young men make in times of war. Politicians have a lot to answer for, but don’t blame the soldiers.” Scott pauses when asked which of his defence projects was the most gratifying. “Oooh. Can I even tell you that? There is a project that isn’t really classified – a personal radar warning device that an individual infantry soldier can wear that’s the size of an iPhone. It could tell them when they’re being detected by radar that picks up infantry walking on foot. Because radar goes one way and then bounces back, if they stand still as soon as they hear the first ‘ping’ the radar won’t detect them on the next sweep. It saves lives, so I thought that was pretty cool.” Fellow pro-soldier/anti-government advocate Henry Rollins appears on new track Grey 11, returning to the TMOC fold after producing 1995’s triumphant Ill At Ease. Scott caught up with his old affiliate a few months at ago at Her Majesty’s Theatre after his stand-u… errr, spoken word performance. “Stand-up!” Scott laughs. “Well it almost is, isn’t it? It’s slowly moved to being standup, but I’m not saying that in a bad way.”
The Mark Of Cain Lennan by Scott Mc Does the guitarist think he could also make the leap to motivational speaking, purging life’s dramas through spoken word rather than music? “Well it’s funny you should mention that, since I’m currently going to TAFE to do a training and assessment course, effectively a certificate that allows you to train and teach at TAFE. I could stand up there and talk, definitely.” WHO: The Mark Of Cain WHAT: Songs Of The Third And Fifth (Fuse) WHERE & WHEN: HQ on Fri Mar 8 and Golden Plains Festival on Sun Mar 10
Stanier By Your Man John Stanier, the US performer who’s worked with Helmet, Tomahawk and Battles, is back on drums for Songs Of The Third And Fifth. As a TMOC affiliate since the late ‘90s, will he be available for all The Mark Of Cain’s 2013 touring obligations? “We are definitely looking at making it happen,” John Scott says. “John always tries to be there for touring, but it gets harder and harder as he’s got Tomahawk and Battles. They’ve done really well for him – Battles are the darlings of what I call the Emerson, Lake & Palmer circuit. I do like some of the stuff they do, but we always have to knock the Battles sound out of him before we start songwriting together in The Mark Of Cain!”
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Interviews// Big Love With her debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough? getting attention for being as soulful as it is funky, Rip It Up chats to new kid on the block Lianne La Havas about the journey she has taken to becoming one of the year’s most interesting emerging UK talents. rom the interview’s outset, 23-yearold Londoner La Havas answers questions in a thoughtful and precise manner, as if she is still getting used to the attention of talking solely about herself. This seems to correlate with the revelation that as a child she was too shy to share her music publicly. “I felt like if I sang in front of anyone I was exposing myself,” La Havas confesses. “Your voice is an organ inside your body and I didn’t know exactly what it was, but it felt really good to sing. When I was younger I just felt a
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bit scared about sharing it, just in case people weren’t hearing the same thing I was hearing inside my head.” Well, whatever she hears inside her head, what we hear inside ours is pretty damn good too. Whether crooning meaningfully on ballads like Is Your Love Big Enough?’s opening track Don’t Wake Me Up or punching out pop melodies on Forget, La Havas’ vocals ooze with the same satisfying sweetness as honey. Comparisons between La Havas and other young emerging female artists can be drawn; my conclusion is that she is a blend of fellow English powerhouse Adele and the bombastic singing Tinkerbell, Kimbra. The journey to releasing Is Your Love Big Enough? a few months ago began with La Havas deciding to professionally pursue music as an 18-year-old. Her first real gig was as a back-up singer for Paloma Faith, another young Londoner with a voice as powerful as her presence. “I met Paloma through a friend of mine who was a big fan of hers. She was playing sell-out gigs around East London – they were a spectacle and became the talk of the town.
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Like many of her contemporaries, Lianne La Havas’ ability is matched by her stage presence and personal style. In particular, her topknot bun has become a signature part of her style. “The topknot bun just came out of an accident. While I was having some press photos taken I didn’t like having my fringe over my eyes with the outfit I was wearing, so I just decided to put it up out of face. Suddenly, I felt really free. It became this thing I always did and it felt really fresh. I also love clothes and I love how they make you feel as a woman particularly. Being on stage and putting on a show does include your attire and I feel ready for a show by feeling really fabulous with whatever I’m wearing. I love fashion and hope to have my own designs one day.”
When I left my friend’s band, Paloma picked me up as a back-up singer and I was with her for about 18 months.” Working with Paloma gave La Havas the experience she needed to survive the industry. “Paloma taught me to have a bit more confidence in my ability.” La Havas muses. “She told me just to be yourself and don’t apologise for anything, even if I messed up at a gig. She has a sort of very authoritative, determined air about her where she gets a lot of out of whoever she’s around. I think I got a lot of that from her, too.” Another La Havas mentor was Aqualung’s Matt Hayles, who produced Is Your Love Big Enough? with her in Los Angeles. “I was a very big Aqualung fan and always wanted to be his friend. Then one day I got the opportunity to meet and work with him and it was just the most wonderful day. We truly bonded in a very short space of time. It was like we were meant to meet.” The album they made together reflects a vast array of emotions including angst, melancholy, love, regret and happiness that are all sung with undeniable passion. La Havas agrees this reflects the mood swings and emotional journey you experience as a teenager, when she first started experimenting with music. Just like being a teenager, there are more questions than answers given on the album, which may explain the album’s title. “No one has really said that before but it’s a nice way of interpreting it. I always see myself as someone who is questioning everything. You can drive yourself insane with questions, but with Is Your Love Big Enough? I wanted it to have a positive feel.” And it may not be too long before Australia can find out for themselves just how big La Havas’ love actually is. “Yes, I believe I will be coming to Australia in January! I cannot wait!” Neither can we. WHO: Lianne La Havas WHAT: Is Your Love Big Enough? (Warner)
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Trivial Hirsute ARIA nominated Adelaide boys The Beards have been spreading their facial hair around the country, currently enjoying an epic Australian tour taking in 30 shows. Speaking to Rip It Up from the streets of Sydney, Johann Beardraven is on the search for fellow bearded men. There’s one!” Beardraven yells. “I’m giving him the thumbs up, but he’s not looking - he looks confused. Good times.” As Beardraven’s facial follicles tickle the phone line, it’s quickly established that this isn’t your average tour: this is a preaching expedition. “The world is ending for the clean chins. Well that’s what the prophecies - that we didn’t make up - are indicating,” the frontman chuckles. “It’s always a good time to grow a beard, but now it’s especially important, so we are spreading the word.” This beard business is so much more than simple talk of a five o’clock shadow. “We’ve always been very serious about growing beards,” he says, without a hint of humour. “And now if you don’t grow a beard, you’ll be dead.” What will happen to the beardless devils? “We don’t care - they will all be crushed and destroyed in some way, shape or form. However it happens, we’re not too concerned. We will be too busy jumping up and down with joy with all the other bearded people.” Adelaide folk have embraced the trend by becoming one of most bearded cities in Australia.
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“It’s all because of us,” Beardraven offers modestly. “We are very proud. Because the people of Adelaide were so receptive to our idea in the initial days, we have been able to spread our wings to other parts of the country to convince everyone to grow a beard. And it’s going well so far.” If this facial hair madness wasn’t enough to keep the excitement cascading from their beardy souls, then the ARIA nomination for ‘Best Comedy Release’ ought to do the trick. “Comedy? I thought it was the bestbearded band? Tthat’s what I was told. I’m not sure about the comedy thing, that’s not our bag. We will accept any release as long as it gives us the opportunity to discuss beards. If it helps for the long-term bearded cause then we’re all for it.” The Beards’ current tour explores all sorts of little nooks and crannies across the country. “I believe it is our biggest tour ever. We’re going to some places that we’ve never been before and we’ve been totally surprised by the beard acceptance and beard growing rates.” Is there a Movember influence to the fact this tour kicked off in November, perhaps? “Let me make this very clear,” Beardraven says sternly, “we despise Movember and moustaches, we’re all about beards. If you’re a part of Movember then you are doing beards a disservice. Don’t think that you can pass a moustache off as a beard. We are looking forward to Decem-beard. That’s when the real action happens. And then Beard-uary. Yep. And then Fe-beard-uary.” For specimens that plan on rocking up to Beards gigs without sporting frivolous facial hair, there are strict instructions. “We prefer them to stand at the back of the room and also face away from the stage, so we can’t see them. Or, if they can just stand outside the building, but still have to pay entry.” For females who simply just cannot plant the bearded seed on their chins, Beardraven’s advice is “try harder”.
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“If you really can’t grow a beard, we would like you to wear a fake beard at all times - and always hang around with a bearded man.” It has been said that hosting a beard suggests attributes of wisdom, sexual fertility and generally a higher status. “I have all of those features,” the singer responds without hesitation. “I also feature some of this morning’s breakfast on my chin. Tucked in the beard for later.” WHO: The Beards WHAT: Having A Beard Is The New Not Having A Beard (Independent) WHERE: Jive WHEN: Sat Dec 5
Yummy Fur Where does Johann Beardraven stand on the maintenance of beard hygiene? “We are very serious about it,” the singer assures. “You gotta keep your beard clean and smelling good ‘cause people wanna touch our beards. And smell our beards. My natural scent is very alluring. “I keep my beard regularly washed and combed. The more time you spend on it the better, I personally spend a lot of time just stroking it. That’s part of the routine. I actually found another beard in there. My beard had grown a beard. That’s how good my beard is.”
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Pleasurekraft The brainchild of Kaveh Soroush and Kalle Ronngardh, Pleasurekraft first formed in the summer of 2009, getting their first break when Pete Tong played tracks on his Essential Selection. Remixes for Chymera and John Acquaviva’s Definitive imprint soon followed, leading to Pleasurekraft crafting their biggest smash hit in 2010 with Tarantula and going on to win the Top Tech House track at the Beatport Awards in Miami in 2011, taking out the grand prize of Top Track Of The Year in all genres. Ever since then, they’ve done remixes for Sander Kleinenberg, Green Velvet’s La La Land anthem, as well as the releases of several new originals, including the 2011 track Carny. Pleasurekraft play at White Rabbit on Fri Jan 18.
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Haus-Boat Summer Cruise feat HMC To celebrate their fifth birthday, TechPhonics have teamed up with mates Turbofunk, Discovery Records and Cuckoo Bar to bring us the next instalment of the epic HausBoat series. The Haus-Boat summer cruise party will feature special guest ‘Captain’ HMC, a well-known legend of the scene. His recent revival and development of his Late Nite Tuff Guy project has pleased fans all around the world, while his brand new HMC album, City Rhythm, has been released after a decade in the making, marking his comeback on the local and international club scene. Joining ‘Captain’ HMC will be ‘Deckhands’ Turbofunk (Devious & Phil Walls), Matt Abstrax, Nenad and Trav Bell. The cruise departs and returns from Port Adelaide, with boarding from 5pm, departure at 5.30pm sharp and return at 11.30pm. Grab your $30 earlybirds available now from promoters, Transition Records and Venuetix. Haus-Boat Summer Cruise departs Port Adelaide 5.30pm/returns 11.30pm on Sat Dec 22.
As a member of the Chicago house trio Phuture, DJ Pierre created the seminal Acid Tracks. A raw, experimental track featuring a wobbling Roland TB-303 bassline, it spawned countless imitators and a whole new genre and youth movement around it.
Full Tote Odds Levelheaded, Slats, Eslev, Mix Zagger and DJ Hacksaw – AKA Full Tote Odds – will launch their new album Place Your Bets at Fowler’s Live this Fri Nov 30, with support from Purpose, Dundas and DJ Sanchez. The Adelaide Hills hip hop collective released their third album through Obese Records distro this month, featuring the highly rotated first two singles Southern Wind and What’s Going Down, and will set off on a national album tour in February next year. With a fifth single expected to drop in three months’ time, Full Tote Odds will also play Homebake next month. Documenting an evolution and marking the group’s arrival at a destination of musical dexterity that has given them the ability to produce cleverly-crafted and thoroughly infectious upbeat tunes, Place Your Bets hit the ARIA Urban Charts at number 25 this week. Get your tickets from Moshtix. Full Tote Odds launch Place Your Bets at Fowler’s Live on Fri Nov 30.
Where did the name Acid Tracks come from if it didn’t have anything to do with LSD?
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I gave the track to Ron Hardy (of the seminal Chicago club, The Music Box) and he played it. It got so popular and people were calling it ‘Ron Hardy’s Acid Track’, I didn’t know it was my track they were calling ‘Acid Track’. It was just this crazy track that Ron Hardy had. I finally got someone with a cassette of his mix, when the track came I was like that’s not Ron Hardy’s, that’s mine. What’s the point in changing the name? All I did was take the Ron Hardy part off.
I don’t usually know anyone that doesn’t credit us with making the first ‘acid track’. This summer I met Skrillex and he was so excited when we met. He was letting me hear his tracks, “Pierre, you gotta hear this one, you gotta hear that one, this one has acid in it”. To me that is respect. Someone that is at the forefront of music and really young connecting to someone that has been in the game for 20 years, being excited to meet them and saying “Yo, I’m doing what you started”. That’s incredible, that’s my respect right there.
Armin van Buuren Universal Religion Chapter Six
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III
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Ever see a dude rep eight turnies at once? If you have, it’s likely you’ve caught KK’s Short Attention Span Theatre tour with fellow spinners P-Love and Jester. That shit was tight, man. Damn tight! It was like he was throwing perfect pieces of sonic fruit into the crowd’s ears all at once to give the sumptuous pastiche that was turntablism salad on the lounge tip. 12 Bit Blues continues Kid Koala’s ongoing quest to create albums which are the result of his tireless passion to source obscure samples from dusty basements and attics and bring them to you, the discerning mofo. A very cohesive journey, 12 Bit Blues, is so cunningly well cut together that the layperson listener would be hard-pressed to know the time and insane dexterity that has gone into creating this record it’s executed with the skill of a brain surgeon operating on a wiley gator on a back porch as the crawdaddies steam in the broiler. I said son, I said boy, I said day-um! That shit is tasty. Cleetus McFeetus
The sixth recording from veteran trance DJ Armin van Buuren’s Universal Religion series, does little more than try and prove trance’s legitimacy when faced with a surge in more commercial dance music. Unfortunately, this recording at Ibiza’s Privilege in August falls into the ‘you needed to be there’ category. A live recording of trance music distances the listener more than it draws them in, as the appeal of trance is that you can escape in the moment. This compilation is an excellent reference for just how accomplished van Buuren is and evidence for why he is regarded as one of the world’s best DJs. Van Buuren synergises other trance big names including Daniel Kandi, Andy Moor and Alex M.O.R.P.H. effortlessly, although once it’s all finished, you still wish the album was studio recorded and not live. Although, perhaps it’s just the sheer jealousy that you aren’t there a part of the action that is the biggest distraction... Maybe it’s time to book flights in time for Chapter Seven? Lachlan Aird
Die Hard With A Vengeance, Alien 3, Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines. When it comes to third acts diminishing a mighty oeuvre by stretching the formula a touch too far, Crystal Castles III can unfortunately be added to the list. Stripped of the shock value of their 2008 debut’s unsettling and abrasive chip-terrors, the Canadian duo of Alice Glass and Ethan Kath are now creeping closer to a digipunk Enya. Telepath and Kerosene maintain the uneasy dyingchipmunks-on-a-broken-carnival-ride feel, but the latter’s line ‘I’ll protect you from all the things I’ve seen’ suggests the eternal brats are becoming maternal prats. Less bleak and abrasive than earlier collections, III almost feels like a companion to Trent Reznor’s The Social Network soundtrack. The closing track even borders on beautiful lullaby were it not for its title: Child I Will Hurt You. Still some malice in the young pups yet, then. Scott McLennan
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People started telling me that ‘Acid’ was popular in Europe. Some European journalist came over to interview me and they were telling me how popular it was in the UK, how in the UK they had this big ‘Summer Of Love’ and it had a bad public image. The Queen spoke out against it and said it was “drug music”. To me the music didn’t have anything to do with drugs.
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The gregarious German electrohouse DJ Thomas Gold (AKA Frank Knebel) is bookending a triumphant 2012 with Australian club tours. Much has happened since February’s trek. Knebel scored a smash with Sing2Me on Axwell’s Axtone Records (included on the compilation Axtone Presents Thomas Gold) and remixed Miike Snow’s The Wave. The DJ also hit international festivals like Las Vegas’ Electric Daisy Carnival, where he added a live drum line, and Ibiza. He has even cracked DJ Mag’s Top 100 at a promising number 82. “It’s hard to pick the personal highlight,” Knebel reveals. “It just was a great year.” He is now touring to promote a new weekly digital radio show, Fanfare – first stop Adelaide. It’s not merely about ‘branding’. With Fanfare, Knebel wants to share his music and interact with fans. Knebel has long had Aussie connections. After remixing Kaz James’ Breathe, his first major compilation was OneLove’s Neon Nights. Knebel teamed with Melbourne’s Dragan (Dirty South) Roganovic (and singer Kate Elsworth) for 2011’s single Alive. This year they aired Eyes Wide Open. “We met when we played together at a gig that was in London – at [the] Ministry Of Sound,” he says of Roganovic. “We just talked a little bit and we were making jokes, Hey, we are doing something together one day – and we followed up on the idea.” The pals swapped music files over the internet prior to bunkering down in a Los Angeles studio and coming up with Alive. “As we were so happy about it, and we just had fun doing the whole thing, we decided, ‘Why not do another one?’” Their rapport is easy. “We didn’t have to think about what we were doing, we just did it.” Knebel currently resides in Berlin but he started DJing in his native Munich. He was releasing music in 2006, his breakthrough
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Don’t You Want Me the next year. But one of Knebel’s biggest achievements has been to remix Adele’s Set Fire To The Rain, his take a YouTube phenom logging over 14 million views. While the DJ never received direct feedback from the soulstress, her management ensured she approved it. Indeed, Knebel had to wait a few days as she was then on tour. “They said ‘She loves it, she’s okay with it’ – so she must have listened to it.” He likewise clubbed-up Lady Gaga’s Judas. Porter Robinson claims that, when he remixed Mother Monster, he gained thousands of new Twitter followers. Did Knebel experience something similar? “I don’t think there were too many new Monster fans, but there was quite a hype around the remix when it came out or when
I played it. But I think it was rather for the people not used to Lady Gaga. I made the track accessible to those clubbers who would maybe not listen to Lady Gaga... I was happy because it was played by all the big DJs. Swedish House Mafia played it.” Knebel’s style has evolved from electrohouse to the extent that today he describes himself as progressive, albeit with inflections of techno. He’s flirted with trance, putting his stamp on Delerium’s Silence. As such, Knebel is open to disparate influences – and hybrids. “I just don’t wanna do the same thing over and over.” Knebel has fresh music on the way. He’s just tweaked OneRepublic’s Feel Again, the lead single from their comeback, Native. “What I’m really excited about is my next
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Norway’s ‘Todd’ Terje Olsen is gliding away from space disco – and seeking fresh challenges beyond his hallowed re-edits and remixes. And he’s being assisted by big pop identities. This year the restless DJ/producer enjoyed an epic club hit with Inspector Norse, off the It’s The Arps EP, the flagship release for his Olsen label, but he also scored himself a UK number one – sorta. Robbie Williams’ Jacknife Lee-helmed Candy is modelled on his 2004 ‘Nor-Wave’ classic Eurodans. Olsen took a call to clear the track and secured a writing credit alongside Williams and fellow Take That stalwart Gary Barlow. It was, the DJ quips, “the
laziest production session ever for me”. While Olsen admits that Candy has brought him “a lot of attention”, he’s not yet been inundated with opportunities to produce pop stars, Guettastyle. Nevertheless, there are other pay-offs. “My 11-year-old nephew still thinks that me and Robbie are best pals, so I’ll be forever cool in his eyes.” Olsen has been more actively involved with another icon, Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry. Ferry’s son Isaac, into underground dance music, has introduced him to such DJ collaborators as Hell. Olsen, too, is indebted to Isaac’s nous. He remixed Ferry’s Alphaville (and created a dub of Roxy’s vintage Love Is The Drug). More excitingly, recent film footage online shows the pair jamming in a London studio. Asked if original material
is forthcoming, Olsen responds with a coy “maybe”. Regardless, he’s relished his exchanges with Ferry. “He’s obviously a hero to a lot of musicians – including me – so he could’ve James Browned all of us in the studio. But instead he was relaxed, listened to what everyone was saying, and added a lot to the sessions.” Olsen grew up in Mjøndalen, playing piano. He’d study music at tertiary level only to switch to (astro)physics at the University of Oslo, uninspired by the course. Olsen first endeavoured to make dance – or breakbeat – at 13. He was subsequently exposed to disco (and house), digging Bjørn Torske’s Sexy Disco. Olsen met Prins Thomas, then working at an Oslo record store. Together with Thomas and Lindstrøm, whose Another Station he remixed,
Thomas Gold single, which is gonna be out very soon,” he teases. “We just closed a deal with a label... We’re just working on all the final details. But it’s gonna be huge and it’s gonna be a banger and, of course, I’m gonna play it out in all my gigs now!” Knebel is up for cutting an ‘artist’ album, but it will have to wait for when he has time. He’s determined not to simply assemble another comp. “I wanna do a whole new thing,” he says. “I would like to kind of tell a story – a musical Thomas Gold story.” WHO: Thomas Gold WHERE: Red Square WHEN: Fri Dec 21
Olsen spearheaded the cosmic disco revival. Yet Olsen, who assumed the ‘Todd’ moniker in homage to Todd Terry, betrayed his wide-ranging sensibilities with idiosyncratic edits (one of Guns N’ Roses). Soon he was expressing disquiet about formulaic ‘nu-disco’. In 2010 Olsen presented Remaster Of The Universe, showcasing his remix skills (listen to the recasting of M’s Pop Muzik). The set was meant to represent the end of an era, Olsen to focus more on originals – and presumably an oft-canvassed ‘artist’ album. Now? “Well, Remaster... was just a remix anthology, nothing fancy. [It] wouldn’t be hard to top that, to be honest, so a debut album is definitely on top of my to-do-list. Working with other bands and artists is also fun, but so far I feel I’ve just extended what I’ve already been doing, which is mixing for [a] dancefloor format. I play a lot of different instruments, but it all seems to end up as dancefloor fodder. The radio format interests me, however, as normal dancefloor rules like tempo don’t apply.” Moreover, Olsen is developing a live show with Lindstrøm for next summer. He imagines it will be like “an extended production session”. Before that, though, Olsen, who initially toured Australia in 2008, will return to devour sushi, cycle, hunt down recording gear, visit studios and, most importantly, DJ (as well as headlining Sydney’s sold-out Harbourlife, he’s down for an Adelaide date). Lately Olsen has been spinning techno – an unexpected evolution considering his heritage in disco and house, not Detroit. “The trancey, melodic Ibiza Cadenza stuff like Luciano’s Rise Of Angel, Robag Wrühme’s Donnerkuppel or Michel Cleis’ Mir A Nero always gives me goosebumps – and I’ll always be playing those tunes,” he says. “But it’s the more stripped-down, percussive, bassy stuff like Instra:Mental that’s surprising me. I’ll always be a crossover guy, though.” WHO: Todd Terje WHERE: Sugar WHEN: Sat Dec 1
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MON DEC 31
THE SELECTER (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh SARAH HUMPHREYS (NSW) & LOREN KATE @ Grace Emily DARYL BRAITHWAITE (Vic) @ Norwood Live
SUMMADAYZE: THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS (UK), MARK RONSON, KIMBRA, MIA, BOOKA SHADE and so many, many more @ Rymill Pk
FRI NOV 30 POUR HABIT (US), HIGHTIME & UNICORN @ Adelaide Uni Bar THE AUDREYS, MYLES MAYO & UNDER THE HOOD @ Elder Hall
SAT DEC 1 THE BEARDS, THE SNOWDROPPERS (Syd) & THE BARON @ Jive DEEP SOUTH: HAT FITZ & CARA ROBINSON (Vic), FIONA BOYES (Syd), THE YEARLINGS, HUCKLEBERRY SWEDES, THE TIMBERS, LAURA HILL & THE TUESDAY BANDITS and so many more @ Governor Hindmarsh IWRESTLEDABEARONCE (US), IN HEARTS WAKE & STORM THE SKY @ Fowler’s Live STEREOSONIC: TIËSTO, AVICII, CALVIN HARRIS, EXAMPLE, CARL COX, MAJOR LAZER and so many, many more @ Bonython Pk BENJALU (NSW) @ Grace Emily A DAY ON THE GREEN: HOODOO GURUS (Syd), BABY ANIMALS (Syd), THE ANGELS, JAMES REYNE (Vic) & BOOM CRASH OPERA (Vic) @ Peter Lehmann Wines THE TIGER & ME (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf ELECTRIC EMPIRE (Vic) @ Rocket Bar
SUN DEC 2 BENJALU (NSW) @ Glenelg Surf Lifesaving Club DEVO (US), SIMPLE MINDS (Scot) & THE CHURCH (Syd) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre THE BEARDS, THE SNOWDROPPERS (Syd) & THE BARON @ Jive NITE FIELDS (Bris), BEIGE ABRASION, WEIRD WEEKEND & THE SUNBIRDS @ Hotel Metro
THU JAN 3 AUSTIN LUCAS, CLAUDE HAY & PJ BOND @ Grace Emily
FRI JAN 4 COSMO JARVIS (UK) @ Crown & Anchor CHAPELIER FOU (France) @ Space Theatre
SAT JAN 5 LOS CORONAS (Spain) @ Space Theatre
PETER MURPHY (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh
FRI JAN 11
SAT JAN 12 SOUNDS BY THE RIVER: JIMMY BARNES, IAN MOSS, ROSS WILSON, DRAGON, CHOCOLATE STARFISH & SWANEE @ Mary Ann Reserve (Mannum) CASEY DONOVAN (Syd) @ Space Theatre
TUE JAN 15 THE COLLECTIVE, BELLA FERRARO, NATHANIEL WILLEMSE, SAMANTHA JADE, SHIANE HAWKE & JASON OWEN @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
WED JAN 16 BEN SOLLEE (US) @ Space Theatre
THU JAN 17 REVOLVER (France) @ Space Theatre NADEAH (France) @ Space Theatre
FRI JAN 18 NIGHTWISH (Finland), EYEFEAR & BLACK MAJESTY @ HQ CARMEN MARIA VEGA (France) @ Space Theatre THE AUSTRALIAN CLOWNS (Vic/SA/NSW) @ Governor Hindmarsh
THU DEC 6
SAT JAN 19
SAN CISCO (Freo) @ Governor Hindmarsh APES (Vic) @ Exeter
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS (US) @ Jive
FRI DEC 7
SUN JAN 20
LAGWAGON (US) & THE SMITH STREET BAND (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS (US) & SIENNA SKIES (Syd) @ Black Market EVIL EDDIE (Bris) @ Ed Castle
THE AUSTRALIAN CLOWNS (Vic/SA/NSW) @ Governor Hindmarsh BOYS OF SUMMER: DEEZ NUTS (Vic),COMEBACK KID, FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS & HAND OF MERCY @ Adelaide Uni Bar
SAT DEC 8
WED JAN 23
GOTYE (Vic) & BERTIE BLACKMAN (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre WOOLLEN KITS (Vic), ALPHA BETA FOX & BRUFF SUPERIOR @ Hotel Metro AFTER THE FALL (NSW) @ Adelaide Uni Bar YESYOU (Bris) & EST IS SUPER @ Ed Castle KRISTA POLVERE (US/Syd) & TRAVELLER & FORTUNE @ The Promethean AFTER THE FALL (NSW), MERE THEORY, BEFORE THE AFTERMATH & MOVE TO STRIKE @ Adelaide Uni Bar
ALESTORM (US) @ Fowler’s Live
TUE DEC 11 TAME IMPALA (WA) @ HQ
THU DEC 13 PIGEON (Bris) @ Rocket Bar THE PIGS (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf
FRI DEC 14 CUB SCOUTS (Bris) @ Rocket Bar LISA MILLER (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf BOOMGATES (Vic) @ Hotel Metro
SAT DEC 15 HARD-ONS (Vic) @ Enigma GAY PARIS (Vic), SILENT DUCK & KEMPSEY @ Jive MEZZANINE (Syd) & LAST DAYS OF KALI @ Crown & Anchor
SUN DEC 16 REGINA SPEKTOR (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre SUICIDAL TENDENCIES (US) & UNWRITTEN LAW (US) @ Fowler’s Live
MON DEC 17 HUMAN NATURE (Syd) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
THU DEC 20 PARKWAY DRIVE (Byron), I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN, NORTHLANE & SURVIVAL @ Thebarton Theatre LOST ANGELS (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh DARREN HANLON (Syd) @ Church Of The Trinity
SAT DEC 22 MAGIC BONES (Vic) & HORROR MY FRIEND @ Hotel Metro
When 2011 X Factor winner Reece Mastin announced he was dating Home And Away cutie Rhiannon Fish earlier this year, the actress was bombarded with death threats. It’s just as well Mastin’s hot-headed followers haven’t heard his unreleased track Little Rocker, which details the pair’s bedroom shenanigans. “I wrote a song called Little Rocker that was about Rhiannon and it’s quite full-on,” the 17-year-old says. “I gave it to my A&R dude Ross [Fraser] and he told me I couldn’t say ‘naked’ on my album. Rhiannon loved it, but Sony didn’t…” Two other Sony acts will be joining Mastin on his tour to promote new album Beautiful Nightmare. Justice Crew began life as dance performers, while fellow support act The Janoskians rose to attention for being
pranksters rather than pop stars. Is the music industry being taken over by people with profiles rather than innate singing talent? “I thought it would be refreshing that everything is a little bit different for this tour – you get the dancing and you get the mucking around and it’s not just music. Justice Crew will do tracks and dance routines, then The Janoskians will do a bit of a prank show, so it builds up to the music.” With Beautiful Nightmare showcasing a wealth of styles, Mastin is confident that he’s no fleeting teen crush or flash-in-the-pan talent. “I lost fans with the Rhiannon thing but now a lot more blokes are listening to this album since it’s got that tougher sound. Any smart bloke knows to come to one of my shows because there’s millions of chicks there. There’ll be five guys in the front row of my show who totally don’t listen to my music and who’ve come just for the chicks, but by the end they’ll be singing along to every word of every song. Then they go home with a girl, so
it’s a win-win situation.” Despite his pop audience, Mastin retains a love of heavier sounds. He even dreams of playing Soundwave. “Yeah, I’ve gone to a lot of Soundwaves – I’ve been to maybe three or four. The thing with the new album is it’s so versatile that we could play Dirty Paradise and Beautiful Nightmare in clubs and then Alive and She’s A Killer at Soundwave.” What’s the back-up plan if Sony drop him? “Music teacher?” Mastin offers, drumming his fingers on the table anxiously. “I think I’m brave enough just to do it myself. I’d pick myself up and tell the band we’re moving to America – it would all be sweet.”
to be coming over and play a quality gig at a big event in front of lots of people is a real thrill.” Fitz was already a veteran of the Australian blues scene – he’s played Byron Bay’s Bluesfest a record 18 times in a row – but met up with Irish singer and washboard player Cara Robinson, who has toured as a backing vocalist for Jamiroquai and Corinne BaileyRae, when he was performing at a festival in Ireland a few years ago. “I saw Cara and was bowled over,” he laughs. “So I had a crack and brought her home with me.” The musician suggests that their musical partnership has raised his own performances to a new standard. “I’d been doing my solo thing for 25 years so getting together with Cara was the best thing that’s ever happened,” Fitz says. “I’d been doing the festival circuit for years and getting half-decent crowds, so I was slowly building up a bit of a following around the place, but working with Cara has meant I’ve kinda ditched the grungy blues I was doing
and now we get a more respectful crowd. “And she’s great to work with – a great singer and a great musician – so it’s taken me to a new level,” he adds. The duo, who tour overseas, notably Europe, on a regular basis, already have two CDs to their credit in the form of Beauty ‘N’ The Beast and Wiley Ways but are currently working on a third. “We’ve already written a few songs so I reckon we’ll have a new album for next year,” Fitz suggests. “And we’ll probably record it with the two of us singing around the one mic. That’s what seems to be working best for us at the moment. “But who knows,” he concludes with a laugh. “We’ll just see how it goes.”
WHO: Reece Mastin WHAT: Beautiful Nightmare (Sony) WHERE: Adelaide Entertainment Centre (with Justice Crew and The Janoskians) WHEN: Tue Dec 4
THU JAN 24 WOODS (US) @ Format
FRI JAN 25 BIG DAY OUT: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (US), THE KILLERS (US), YEAH YEAH YEAHS (US), BAND OF HORSES (US) and so many more @ Adelaide Showgrounds
SUN JAN 27 A DAY ON THE GREEN: ELVIS COSTELLO (UK), SUNNYBOYS (Syd), JO JO ZEP & THE FALCONS (Vic), TEX PERKINS & THE DARK HORSES & STEPHEN CUMMINGS @ Leconfield Wines (McLaren Vale) KIKUYU (Vic) & SUPER XX MAN (US/Vic) @ Wheatsheaf
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COMING UP THU JAN 31 SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Goolwa Aquatic Centre THE WATERBOYS (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre FRI FEB 1 THEE OH SEES (US) @ Jive SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Coopers Alehouse (Wallaroo) SARAH BLASKO (Vic) & ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA @ Festival Theatre WENDY MATTHEWS (Syd) @ Space Theatre CLIPSAL 500: HILLTOP HOODS, DRAPHT & ILLY @ Victoria Pk THE SUPERJESUS @ Governor Hindmarsh SAT FEB 2 SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Norwood Live SUN FEB 3 SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Old Clarendon Inn EARTH CRISIS (New York) @ Fowler’s Live CLIPSAL 500: KISS (US), MÖTLEY CRÜE (US), THE ANGELS & IAN MOSS @ Victoria Pk THU FEB 7 JOE PERNICE (US) & NORMAN BLAKE (Scot) @ Grace Emily FRI FEB 8 LANEWAY FESTIVAL: BAT FOR LASHES (UK), JAPANDROIDS (Can), JESSIE WARE (UK), HOLY OTHER (UK), JULIA HOLTER (US), CHET FAKER, ALPINE, THE RUBENS and so many more @ COLIN HAY (Vic) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre
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STICKY FINGERS (Vic) & BABYLON BURNING @ Governor Hindmarsh
REEL BIG FISH (US), GOLDFINGER (US) & ZEBRAHEAD (US) @ HQ REECE MASTIN, JUSTICE CREW & THE JANOSKIANS @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre
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Deep South is an all-day, family friendly blues and roots music festival to be held at the Governor Hindmarsh that will feature three stages and include a host of local performers alongside two interstate acts, Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson and award winning blues guitarist Fiona Boyes. Local acts on the Deep South bill include Huckleberry Swedes, Laura Hill & The Tuesday Bandits, The Hushes, The Yearlings, Bearded Gypsy Band and many more, including Billy Bob & The BBQ Boys, who will be hosting a jam session in the front bar. Queensland duo Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson will also be appearing at Deep South and are looking forward to making an impression. “We don’t get to Adelaide too often,” Fitz (guitar, vocals and harmonica) announces, “so
WHO: Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson WHERE: Deep South, The Governor Hindmarsh WHEN: Sat Dec 1 from 2.30pm
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Friday 30th
ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) AUSTRAL – Bunka: DJs BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJ Paul Gurry. Band Room: The Beer Belly Buskers and guests 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 with Mjay (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Sasha & The Dawnhorse and Escapism
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: Robin George (6pm) Usual Suspects (10pm) Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke and Steve Simon AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BELAIR HOTEL – Iguana Bros 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 – Wildcard BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BROADWAY HOTEL – DJ Sneaky Beats BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAFÉ KOMODO – Nikko & Snooks (7pm) CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CASABLABLA – The Belle-Phonics (11pm) CLOVERCREST HOTEL – 2 Up Duo CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) DJ Adam (1am) Band Room: Crank Yankers DOCKSIDE TAVERN – The Rustlers DOG & DUCK – DTF with D Foe, Krunk, Dom P, Ryley, Kid P and MC Jon-E DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm) EMU HOTEL – 3 Hump Camel (8pm) ENIGMA – The Ramjets, Sophie May Fly, Pelamama and Hangover Society ESPLANADE HOTEL – Mitch EXETER ON RUNDLE – Olivers Army FINDON HOTEL – karaoke
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – BURY OR BURN, HALLY, HOLLOW EYES, STARSCREAM AND FOR GLORY GASLIGHT TAVERN – Groove Thursdays with special guest artist GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Joe Man Murphy Duo (7pm) GOLDEN GROVE TAVERN – Dino Jag Trio and guests (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Selecter and Son Of Dad GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Sarah Humphreys & The Volunteers album launch with Loren Kate GRAND BAR – OMG 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 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 – Acoustic 4-Play (8.30pm) WEST ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – DIXON CIDER, SCABS AND THE FIX FOWLER’S LIVE – Full Tote Odds featuring Purpose, Dundas and DJ Sanchez GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Thanos Petrelis GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Hills & Trains with The Timbers GRAND BAR – Miller City Sessions featuring Pete Gooding GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Emily Smith Duo GUTHRIES – Davidson Brothers (8pm)
HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs K & Krispy HIGHWAY – Friday arvo knock-offs HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOPE INN – Acoustic Blonde HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra a (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs HOTEL VICTOR – Lily & The Drum (8.30pm)) HQ – Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) JIVE – Little Two Eyes, Collection Day and Alphabette LA BOHEME – Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (9pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Fever Xmas Dinner & Dance LAVISH – DJ Sok and DJ Spin Dokta LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL – Acoustic Jam with Jelly & Friends LIMBO – resident DJs Japeye, Alley Oop and She Said LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (6pm) Dave Freeman & The Reason (9pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Michael Venner Duo NEXUS CABARET – Nexus & Karruru present Adelaide’s best indigenous musicians and performers OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Insideout ORIENTAL – Shane Wolf (4.30pm) Acoustik (8pm) PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Tom J Williams PJ O’BRIENS – Alien 8
RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE – DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth, Decker and Bollocks plus MC Dylan REX HOTEL – karaoke and Redline RHINO ROOM – The Burlesque Beauties (11pm) ROB ROY HOTEL – Yass (6pm) DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Chris Finnen Electric Band SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Georgy K 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 – Triplescore and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – DJ Gex (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment THE PROMETHEAN – Monkey Puzzle Tree album and film clip launch with Amongst Myselves and Oisima TONSLEY HOTEL – Chrysler Bar: Jest (9.30pm) Tavern Bar: Cat Vas (4.45pm) Acoustica (9pm) 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 – Johnny McIntyre and Ryan Underhill (9pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – karaoke with Ally & Co WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Leadfoot WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Osyris, Terrence and Gumshoe
Saturday 1st AGATHAS: PT NOARLUNGA – Billy February (3pm) ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Yoshi Wij (6pm) DJ Chris James (9.30pm) Lounge Bar: Becky Blake (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) Top Room: Flirt Christmas Dinner & Show (6.30pm) 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
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The Guide // CLOVERCREST HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fever Xmas Dinner Show COWANDILLA SOCIAL CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Plan A (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dixson Cider, Fear & Loathing, Pigasus and Cock album launch then DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EMU HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rock The Boss (8pm) ENIGMA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eater Of The Sky, Crystal Math, Ice On Mercury, Life Pilot and Inwoods ESPLANADE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Russell Stuart EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Encarta plus guests FEATHERS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Black Magic
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; WHEN CHICKS ATTACK, RED LEATHER RIOT, WILD ROCKET, BITCHSPAWN AND THE VILLENETTES FOWLERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LIVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iwrestledabearonce GARAGE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs (10pm)
GEPPS CROSS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke disco with Craig Anthony GILBERT STREET HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Marky Polo (8pm) GOLDEN GROVE TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dino Jag Duo (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: Deep South Roots & Blues Festival. Front Bar: Christmas Party featuring Snooks La Vie and The Reprise (7.30pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Benjalu with Banjo Jackson GRAND BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Grand Bar Saturdays with DJ DMH and DJ Rupheo GUTHRIES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Davidson Brothers Intimate Instrumental Workshop (10am) HIGHLANDER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Live & Loud presents Stellar HIGHWAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Griff (9pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Soundflex HOPE INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Little Wing (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker and Bangwel (8pm) HOTEL VICTOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lily & The Drum (8.30pm) JIVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Beards, The Snowdroppers and The Baron KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke LA BOHEME â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Tr!p and DJ Anthony alternate (9pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Swap Sides LIMBO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; resident DJs Delux, The Swiss DJs and Paul Glen LONDON TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm)
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MARBLE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I <3 MB with DJs and MCs plus national and international guests MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Franky F (6pm) Katatonic (9pm) MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shannon Lloyd Trio ORIENTAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 Up Duo PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; After Five PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wild Ones PJ Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BRIENS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Animal House PRETORIA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kinetik
Sat Dec 1 The Gov Deep South: Roots and Blues Festival ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; High Heels DJs: Track Team, Anthony, Hemilove and Ryley
RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ADELAIDEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BEST COVER BANDS
Sunday 2nd
RED SQUARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan REGENCY TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Whiskey Harbour with Girlband and Daniel Ciccarello (8.30pm) RHINO ROOM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Burlesque Beauties (7.30pm) ROCKET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANTIAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Hussyboy (8.30pm)
ALMA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sportys Bar + Arena: Sunday Beats with DJ Smiley (3pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Lunch Cutters CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all ages show DOCKSIDE TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Andrea Dawson DOG & DUCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; No Use For A DJ Name (9pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Point 05 ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rockwieler (5pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Hitmen EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Faction
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ACOUSTIC SESSIONS SEBEL PLAYFORD â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Black Caviar SLUG â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Point 05 STAG â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Upstairs: DJs Huddy and Jase with urban and dance. Downstairs: DJ Kieran and David James SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing retro and requests TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Overtake TEQUILA REA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE CUMBERLAND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Launch Pad featuring local DJs THE ELEPHANT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Triple X and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Dante and interactive games night (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Marcus and friends THE GRIFFINS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing house tunes THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Trick TORRENS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustic Reign (8.30pm) TOTNESS INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Big Cheese TOWER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Georgy K UNION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN FUNCTION CENTRE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; New Romantics WALKERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sessions (9pm) WEST ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Xtreme Tributes Xmas Show WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Tiger & Me with James Kenyon (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rave On WOODCROFT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Kontrol, C4, Deceed, J Rudd, Lush and Koops (8pm)
FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; FRUITY SUNDEE WITH VIX GILBERT STREET HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tara Carragher and Richard Coates (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; La Mar Sundays GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beej with The Kapridis Boys (2pm) Charles Buddy Daaboul (8pm) HIGHBURY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paul Stubbings HIGHLANDER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tim Bos DJ and Sax HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NPL Poker (6.30pm) JAM THE BISTRO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Tango JIVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Beards, The Snowdroppers and The Baron LAKES RESORT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Theo LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Five Sided Circle MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJK classic video hits MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Killkenny OAKBANK HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mick Kidd OAKS PLAZA PIER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pier One Bar: Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nuf Said ORIENTAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Roger & Regan PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Redline PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Boris Loves To Boogie
The Guide // RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ACOUSTIC SESSION (4PM) TOM KURZEL & ED TRAINOR FORTNIGHTLY ROTATION (7.30PM) ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Harmonics SAILMASTER TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Troy Harrison
SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS SEMAPHORE PALAIS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kopy Catz SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Let It Roll SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) THE MAID â&#x20AC;&#x201C; acoustic Sunday sessions (4pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Little Wing (2pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sweet Jean (4pm) ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Scott Holder and Ryley ZOOTZ â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Salsa night (every second week)
Monday 3rd AUSSIE INN HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia AVOCA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Schnitty & Trivia Night (7pm) BARTLEY TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia BOATHOUSE TAVERN: TAPEROO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia BRIDGEWAY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia BULL & BEAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Musoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jam (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dieselwitch Acoustic with Ant Can EMBASSY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Coops & The Bird GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Balcony Bar: Harmoniclub GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Billy Bobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pier One Bar: Jake The Snake (8pm) PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia RHINO ROOM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jam Night (8pm) SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon
THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen TOWER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Coma Spring Sessions featuring Tectonics and Golonka (8pm)
Tuesday 4th ARKABA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Top Room: Adelaide Comedy featuring Dave Callan (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ash Wilson CAVAN HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Band Room: Cranker Comedy. Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan DANIEL Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;CONNELL HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Like Leaves DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Front Bar: Ukulele Appreciation Society GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pub Cinema MARION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 888 Poker PARADISE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Memory Lane Trivia PJ Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BRIENS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Davy Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Music Trivia (7.30pm) PORT NOARLUNGA CHRISTIES BEACH RSL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustic Rendezvous live music open mic (7.30pm) SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE COVE TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia THE GOODY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia THE GRIFFINS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; fresh, funky and progressive tunes THE KINGS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Old Skool Funk with Nixon and Penfold. Back Bar: APL poker THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustic Sessions TORRENS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Trivia Tuesday (7pm) VINE INN: NURIOOTPA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; live music
Wednesday 5th BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia COLONNADES TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Memory Lane Trivia (12.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Geek with DJ Tr!p
DANIEL Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;CONNELL HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Danâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) DOM POLSKI CENTRE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; salsa lessons (6.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bento (Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Yoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Box?!) EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Curtis FINDON HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complete Trivia
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Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo Canada’s Cirque du Soleil are currently touring Australia with Ovo, the acclaimed company’s 25th production in 25 years. Ovo is also being staged in the company’s salubrious blue and yellow tent, The Grand Chapiteau, and boasts a cast of over 70 skilled acrobats undertaking a huge variety of disciplines. e speak to artistic director Marjon Van Grunsven and Safarbek Zardakov, a member of Ovo’s stunning aerial act. The storyline of Ovo, which means egg in Portuguese, is based on the life of insects as they work, eat, crawl, flutter and play in their colourful world. When an egg appears, they become rather curious about it. “It’s a day in the life of insects and follows them from early morning through to night,” Van Grunsven reveals. “It’s about a community and their environment, which is very recognisable for humans. It’s visited by a very strange foreign fly who carries an egg on his back. And they are very curious. What is it? Is it food, life, love? So they want to steal it
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away. And the fly falls in love with the ladybug so it’s lots of fun.” Van Grunsven and Zardakov both agree that Cirque du Soleil’s well-known and globally acclaimed brand is what sells their shows. “And Ovo is also a very happy show,” Van Grunsven suggests. “It’s very uplifting and good for people of all ages as it doesn’t matter how young or old you are. Everyone enjoys it.” “It’s also very, very colourful,” Zardakov adds. “And everyone understands the story and loves it.” Berna Ceppis has created a score that will be played live by a group of eight musicians. “When people hear that it’s a Brazilian score they immediately think of the carnivals in Rio but it’s not like that at all,” Van Grunsven points out. “It’s much more contemporary and some of it is very rock with lots of energy. For example, for Safarbek [Zardakov] and his high flying act, it’s very energetic.” “Yes, it’s very powerful,” he immediately agrees, “and it helps give us the energy we need to do what we do.” Zardakov, who was last in Adelaide 10 years ago as a performer with Moscow State Circus, goes on to say that the others performers in his high flying routine are all fellow Russians. “But I didn’t know them before joining Cirque,” he says. “Some have been with
Russian circuses and some have a sporting background in gymnastics. But we all get on very well together and because we are a flying act we need a lot of trust in each other. “We need a very good rapport,” he adds with a laugh, “because you need to know if someone is ready to catch you. Or not.” “When I first saw the flyers I couldn’t believe how skilled they were,” Van Grunsven adds. “And I’ve seen their bodies extend to what seems like twice their height in order to catch another performer. They are really tuned in to each other but make it look so easy.” Van Grunsven then suggests that the colourful costumes help make the performer become their insect character. “It becomes part of you body,” Zardakov agrees, “and it’s like you own skin. You do become the insect you are portraying.” “And it’s funny because if any of the performers have trouble with their costume – it might have become twisted – they have been told to scratch it back into place like an insect would,” Van Grunsven. “They’ve been told to do that because once someone does something that makes them look human, the show’s magic is lost. So we work hard to keep that magic but it’s also made it really fun. “And some of that kind of thing has become a new movement because we are always
The Grand Chapiteau Facts The Grand Chapiteau was conceived by a team of Canadian engineers and the canvas was produced by French company Les Voileries du Sud-Ouest, who specialise in sails and big tops. The canvas for the tent and its 11 tunnels weigh approximately 5227.3kg. The Grand Chapiteau is over 20 metres high and over 50 metres in diameter. It is supported by four masts that are each over 24 metres tall and seats more than 2600 people in a climate-controlled environment.
exploring new ideas,” Zardakov adds. Ovo will be coming to town with 129 people including staff, but the company also employs many locals to work on the show. “We have them at the ticket box or as ushers,” the artistic director says. “And we also need locals to work in our wardrobe department to work on the costumes as they need repairing. “They also need to be washed regularly,” Van Grunsven chuckles. WHAT: Ovo WHERE: Tambawodli (Park 24), West Tce WHEN: From Thu Dec 6
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Film // Skyfall (M) Just about The Biggest Movie Ever, and an absolute cracker to celebrate the 50th year of (Commander) James Bond, this spectacularly entertaining epic takes several risks and yet, nevertheless, pays off splendidly. The traditional opening-curtain showstopper this time proves to be a rather bungled operation in Istanbul (where else?), where Bond (Daniel Craig - duh) is seemingly killed (no spoiler necessary), and M ( Judi Dench) is thereafter threatened with early retirement by assorted toffeenosed superiors (one of whom, of course, is no less than a surprisingly strong Ralph Fiennes). However, JB’s not, in fact, dead, and soon returns from boozy exile when a villain from those much-discussed ‘shadows’ emerges to blow up MI6 and personally target M herself, and reveals himself as the dangerously
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obsessed Silva ( Javier Bardem), wonderfully loopy and with a weird dye-job and even a line in creepy camp that would have been ridiculously tacky in the hands of just about any director other than Sam Mendes (perhaps the classiest guy in the top job on any Bondage opus thus far - no, really). With a cleverer script than expected (far stronger than the drab previous outing Quantum Of Solace), real acting, honestto-goodness stuntwork and hazardous-looking thrills and spills instead of meaningless CGI, and a sense of respect for the central character, the fans and all that came before, this is, without a doubt, The Best Mainstream Blockbuster Of 2012, however late in the day it might well be. And Craig is a tremendous Bond: steely-eyed, frighteningly physical, slightly psycho - and just a bit up-himself. Mad Dog Bradley
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Opel Moonlight Cinema Australia’s largest outdoor cinema is back for summer with its 16th season of great cinema from Thu Nov 29 until Thu Feb 17 2013. Again featuring many new, frequently Christmassy titles alongside many classic faves, the full calendar can soon be seen at moonlight.com.au.
Opening But Unrated Back To 1942 (M), director Xiaogang Feng’s filming of Zhenyun Li’s novel and screenplay, is a dramatic study of an infamous 1942 drought in central China, and offers Adrien Brody and Tim Robbins alongside Asian stars.
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (M), written/executive produced/directed by Stephen Chbosky (as drawn from his novel), is a college-ish drama toplining Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd, Melanie Lynskey, Joan Cusack and Tom Savini.
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (M) Co-written, co-produced and directed by Diana (‘Dee-Yahhh-Na’) Vreeland’s granddaughter-in-law Lisa Immordino Vreeland, this study of the enormously influential Harper’s Bazaar editor’s life and times has more than its share of ‘faction’ (Diana’s patented combination of fact and fiction), but proves great fun anyway. Using archival interviews and taped discussions that George Plimpton was once trying to turn into a biography, we hear of Vreeland’s life, how it spanned so many key moments of the 20th century, and wonder how much is true: as a kid she did indeed live in Paris during the ‘Belle Époque’, experienced the ‘Roaring Twenties’ in New York as a young woman, and then married and relocated again to Europe where her friends included Coco Chanel, but she didn’t personally know Buffalo Bill or wave at Charles Lindbergh as he flew past. Still, all this hardly matters, as you’re here for the fashion, and once we get to New York again and Diana begins work at HB and later becomes its powerful editor, the glamour truly starts, as: she discovered models including Lauren Bacall, Twiggy and Angelica Huston; she advised Jacqueline Kennedy; she gave Mick Jagger a big break with a photo piece (which is why The Rolling Stones’ She’s A Rainbow plays over the credits); she was fictionalised/factionalised for the Audrey Hepburn-starring Funny Face; and she simply refused to let dreary old reality have its way. Even for fashion-haters, Vreeland Jr’s doco should prove illuminating and most entertaining, as we’re obviously dealing with a woman who was partfantasist, part-feminist and altogether fabulous. Mad Dog Bradley
Celeste And Jesse Forever (MA) Rashida Jones co-penned and stars in this pretty irksome relationshippy-drama, and it’s again intriguing how once a reasonably wellknown player gets the chance to write her own script (see also the recent Ruby Sparks), the result’s something so uncomfortable and even rather unpleasant. Her Celeste is a ‘trend forecaster’ and author (of Shitegeist and other books) who’s not actually getting together with Jesse (Andy Samberg), as the poster (and general cliché) might suggest: no, she’s actually in the process of divorcing him, even though the pair don’t truly want to split up and keep reconnecting for annoying improvised comedic interludes, one-nightstands and couch hugs. This is proving a bit of an issue for their friends (including mutual pal ‘Skillz’, broadly played by Jones’ co-writer Will McCormack), and as we watch Celeste and Jesse try to start dating again, and build up to a couple of twists (maybe not quite the ones you’d expect, but anyway) and the looming wedding of another bestie (Ari Graynor), director Lee Toland Krieger virtually gives up trying to keep things firing, and settles into a rather cheap-looking rut. Some would insist that C&JF is still a ‘Chick Flick’ (ugh!) worth persevering with, and yet it’s surprising how unfunny and uneasy this material is, and indeed how Jones (familiar from The Social Network and other major movies) has proudly written for herself a character who’s both seriously unbelievable and frustratingly grating. And sorry, but it’s not me - it’s her! Mad Dog Bradley
All Through Evening (M) Australian queer activist film-maker Rohan Spong finds a compatriot in Mimi Stern-Wolfe, a septuagenarian social activist from New York’s East Village, who every year presents a concert for World AIDS Day, showcasing the music and lyrics of her friends, local artists from New York, the majority of whom have died from HIV/AIDS related illnesses. Documenting the lead up to and presentation of Mimi’s 20th World AIDS Day concert, what initially appears to be a simple music documentary in fact turns into a unique, personal and thoroughly intriguing account of the HIV/ AIDS pandemic that devastated the East Village arts community. Through photos, video footage, heartfelt interviews with those who knew them best and, of course, music, All Through Evening remembers the artists, their struggles and triumphs with their health and their art, and celebrates the music and lyrics they left behind. While this is ultimately an uplifting, tributary film, every happy memory shared is tinged with sadness. Of the 21 artists Mimi has featured since 1990, only three are still alive today, and as Mimi grows older, she and her collaborators are all too aware that there may not be many more opportunities to remember fallen friends. Simply told, Spong’s riveting documentary honours Mimi and adds another link to the chain she started, ensuring that her hard work is brought into the spotlight, just as she did for those she cared about. It’s bittersweet to see a good thing come out of such a tragedy, but it’s a chain worth continuing. Kat McCarthy
And Red Dawn (MA), Dan Bradley’s remake of John Milius’ right-wing 1984 actioner, has Chris Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Isabel Lucas and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and changes the baddies from Russians to North Koreans.
Seniors On Screen: From The Page To The Screen Forum Mercury Cinema
The Mercury’s Seniors On Screen offering this Fri Nov 30 at 11am is a forum, From The Page To Screen, with Dr Kerryn Goldsworthy discussing the adaptation of books to film using the most recent Wuthering Heights (the super-muddy one directed by Andrea Arnold) as an example. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.
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Adelaide diners are getting fussy. Restaurants and cafes have to continuously reinvent themselves to come up with ways not only to feed us, but also to entertain. If the venue gets stale, then pretty soon the kitchen stock will do the same. Some people who know a thing or two about reinventing themselves and a couple of former reality TV contestants are certainly on that list. My Restaurant Rules was one of Australia’s first cooking shows and I can imagine that the only thing more challenging than opening a restaurant would be to have it filmed while it was happening. The Greedy Goose was certainly one of Adelaide’s most recognisable restaurants while it was open thanks to its TV exposure and despite closing their doors a few years ago, owners Justine and John Hall managed to keep the venue fresh and the food exciting. This is a talent that these two have held onto with their new restaurant opening in Semaphore a few months ago. Lickerish is upstairs on the main street of Semaphore, with views from the ocean if you are lucky enough to score a spot on the balcony. The venue has a casual yet elegant design, topped off by fantastic and very personal service by Justine and her food and beverage staff. On the topic of beverages the wine and beer list here is just brilliant. While keeping fairly loyal to South Australian wines they have a good list of nationals on there too. Whoever wrote this list knows their stuff. Lickerish is stylish, delicious and certainly entertaining. I found it almost impossible to choose between the dishes on the menu, but settled with three of the ‘smaller’ dishes. Pork belly served with celeriac, coffee, cocoa and a toffee-dipped miniature apple to balance things out ($18). This dish was simply outstanding – with perfect flavour combinations and texture. A crisp, fresh and light dish of chevre, lime, pinenut and mint stuffed zucchini flowers ($17) followed this, before the hero dish of the menu landed, The Octopus’ Garden ($16). I’d heard rumours of this dish and seen pictures, but nothing could prepare me for the real thing. Cucumber ribbons, poached cherry tomato, edible flowers and tender slices of octopus have been artfully arranged on a base of wasabi-infused avocado. If food could win an art prize, then the octopus’ garden would be a frontrunner.
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Goodieson Brewery Pilsner 330ml 5.0% ABV As we say farewell to gorgeous spring days and prepare for the dry, hot onslaught of the festive season, the search for something light and bright to revel in (responsibly, of course) is on. Jeff and Mary Goodisen have been hard at work down in the Vale producing award-winning brews of all styles, from stout to wheat and the newly released maibock, but this pilsner has been a favourite of mine for some time. The nose is grainy and dominated by saaz hops, which leads perfectly to the front palate, and is spicy but well balanced by sweet malty notes. While at this point most of the style will fall away, this one isn’t done yet, with the finish for its style being generous and creamy with hints of hard herb and clove. Goodisen Brewery Pilsener pairs well with most food or, let’s face it, no food at all, so just enjoy it outdoors on a deck with mates while listening to some dirty Chicago blues like the incomparable Willy Buck. Cheers.
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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 There is a distinct tension between the part of you that wants to be a maverick and the part of you that wants to knuckle down and produce excellence. If you are too much of a maverick, there is an imbalance. If you get too conservative, again imbalance. Be dynamic yet steady.
Taurus 21.04/20.05 Venus has entered Scorpio, bringing your Achilles heel into awareness. Under the steadiness of your apparent contentment and stability, deep waters are flowing. These deep waters tell a tale that is very different to what’s on the surface. Celebrate the sensitivity at your core.
Gemini 21.05/21.06 Mercury is in Scorpio, pulling your fascination towards those things that are under the carpet. Jupiter insists that you stretch your limits. It’s not enough to be contented and small. Contented and vast is another thing. Accept the transformative depths of relationship.
Cancer 22.06/22.07 The moon begins her week in feisty impulsive Aries. This is a week for starting things. It’s time to turn on the ignition of your passion. There’s been enough thinking about it. Action is what is required. The heart needs dreams to be put into action to gain strength and depth.
Leo 23.07/22.08 The sun has moved into fellow fire sign Sagittarius. This puts you back on an even keel again, after a month of emotional confusion caused by his foray into Scorpio. Sagittarius inspires adventures - it inspires a grand hunt for truth. Jettison complication. Keep it simple.
Virgo 23.08/22.09 As you plot your path to the goals that mean most, so there comes the dawning realisation that you are going to have to confront the resistance and hurt in you and others that prevent you from truly getting traction. With Mercury in Scorpio, transformation is mandatory.
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Libra 23.09/23.10 As Venus dips into Scorpio, life proves once again that it is bigger than imagination. There are always new heights and new depths to be initiated into. To see life as a wise teacher is to see all that happens as having intrinsic wisdom, though the nut is sometimes hard to crack.
Scorpio 24.10/21.11 The sun has left, which is a relief. Too much light can damage night flowers. Life is not dull however. There are still three planets in Scorpio. In your secret place, love is bubbling, awareness is brewing – and the forge of patience is tempering the steel of your wisdom.
Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 The sun has just moved into Sagittarius, bringing light to things that were simply failing to make sense. Emotion is by nature a foggy place. The mist is starting to lift. There’s clarity where there was mud. There is lightness where there was seriousness. Aliveness brings integration.
Capricorn 22.12/19.01 Mars and Pluto, the two most masculine of Greek Gods, and planets, are moving together in your sign. When masculine energy moves, things get done – adventures are put into place. If it is inhibited, it gets stroppy. Transformation comes through action plus awareness.
In Good Company In Good Company is the 2012 graduate exhibition by recent Bachelor Of Visual Art students from the Adelaide Central School Of Art. With 21 students’ work displayed, this will be the school’s largest graduate exhibition to date.
The involved artists include Sam Trevaskis, James Holdsworth, Suha Choi, Ellie Noir, Courtney Rodgers and more. A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition featuring a double-page spread for each student.
WHAT: In Good Company WHERE: ACSA, 45 Osmond Tce, Norwood WHEN: Sat Dec 1 – Sat Dec 15
Aquarius 20.01/18.02 As the moon sweeps through Aries early in the week and crosses over your planet, Uranus, so a wildfire of energy lights up in your soul. It will move you to being more authentic, more connected to your essence. Use this energy to move towards the things that mean most.
Pisces 19.02/20.03 At the same time your emotional and spiritual depths are being fed, your fantasies and illusions are being brought into the light and dispelled. It’s somewhat boggling for these things to go together – but depth has to be real, not ephemeral, and you know it. Go with it.
Espionage Gallery Art Gallery Of Suite 1, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall, South Australia Adelaide James Dean: Wisdom And Folly Thu Nov 29 – Wed Dec 12
If you’re the kind of person who is scared of clowns, you should avoid the upcoming Wisdom And Folly exhibition, a series of new acrylic and oil works by Adelaide-based artist James Dean. Or force yourself to go to assist in your journey of overcoming your fear via positive reinforcement. Hosted by Espionage Gallery in the city, the showcase will explore themes of surrealism and cues of childhood, particularly that of clowns, depicting particularly morose-looking entertainers with drooping face paint. If it’s not too mentally scarring for you, come along and enjoy a beer or cider on the opening night. Opening: Thu Nov 29 from 6pm – late
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North Terrace, Adelaide Collec+ors on display Fri Nov 30 - Sun Mar 17
The first entire exhibition of decorative artworks to be acquired for the Art Gallery Of South Australia’s collection, Collec+ors, will officially open on Fri Nov 30. Acquired in June this year, Collec+ors will feature works of art by acclaimed Adelaide furniture and interior designer Khai Liew in conjuction with six pre-eminent Australian artists including Julie Blyfield, Kirsten Coelho, Gwyn Hanssen Piggot, Bruce Nuske and more in mediums of glass, ceramics and metalware.
Bull & Bear 89 King William St, Adelaide Fresh Off The Press Fri Nov 30
Adelaide Screen Printing studio ‘Superb Studio’ will officially launch with an innovative live screen printing event entitled Fresh Off The Press on Fri Nov 30 at Bull & Bear. On the night six T-shirt designs created by talented illustrators Ben Brown, Malicious, Store, Palms and Adam Miller will be sold alongside a live performance from hip hop duo Theory Of Face. The printing starts at 7.30pm.
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Finding an outfit that retains exclusivity can be an expensive adventure. New local online store, Once Upon A Lie, is looking to bring down the prices for custom-made and limited-run items so they are accessible for everyone. By accessible I mean that everyone can afford to access them, but only a limited few can own them. The website’s collection showcases streetwear with a splash of grunge, while still maintaining feminine qualities. With plenty of embellished crucifixes, ripped denim shorts, muscle tanks, animal and moustache prints and studded platform heels, these items are ideal for making a statement at summer festivals. More importantly, with limited quantities, you won’t be too worried to bump into someone wearing the same outfit as you (the horror!). Also, keep an eye on their Facebook page for frequent new arrival and discount code updates, to make the cheap and exclusive shopping experience that much more appealing.
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Kyly Clarke For Boutique@ HS Michael Clarke wasn’t the only famous Clarke in town last week, with his wife and Harris Scarfe ambassador, Kyly, making an appearance at the Hotel Richmond to showcase the new Boutique@HS collection. Head to the Fashion page of ripitup.com.au to see the full gallery from the day.
Sass & Bide’s ‘Brazil Brazil’ Havaianas
Grand Bazaar ‘The bigger the better.’ Not always a wise motto to live by, but when it’s the Gilles Street Market being supersized, it’s definitely true in context. The Gilles Street Grand Bazaar will see a section of Gilles St closed off to accommodate an extension of the existing market. In addition to the well-established market grounds in Gilles Street Primary School, 50 extra stalls will be added, meaning the bazaar will host over 130 fashion, art, craft and homemade food stalls. The Jam Room will provide live entertainment with acoustic sessions by The Tiger & Me, Nick Saxon and Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band. In addition to old mates of the market, Red House Vintage, The Corner Store, Days Of August, Luna & Luxe Candles and Decibel Tees, newcomers
include Blooms Florist, Adelaide’s Pop Up Vintage Book Store and Workshop. Designers Ella Hope and Andrius Tomas will be making their Gilles Street debut. If this sounds like something you want to see happening more often, make sure you head along, as if the bazaar is successful (as it undoubtedly will be) we can expect to see more Gilles Street Grand Bazaars in the future. WHAT: Gilles Street Grand Bazaar WHERE: Gilles Street Primary School, 91 Gilles St WHEN: Sun Dec 2, 10am-4pm ENTRY: Free INFO: gillesstreetmarket.com.au
Heidi Middleton and Sarah-Jane Clarke have managed to add their designer touch to the humble Havaianas. A favourite for everyone in summer (or, let’s face it, any season) the Brazilian sandals – most affectionately known as ‘Havvys’ - have practically become adopted as our own. By implementing a monochromatic cheetah print with signature Sass & Bide gold star charm, the duo have produced the ‘Brazil Brazil’ sandal that embodies the thing that both Brazilians and Australians love most – summer. The release of the limited edition footwear for Summer 2012/2013 will coincide with Havaianas’ 50th anniversary. Sass & Bide ‘Brazil Brazil’ Havaianas - $49.95, are available from havaianasaustralia.com.au, Sass & Bide boutiques and sassandbide.com.
Decades: A Century Of Fashion Cameron Silver / Bloomsbury / 320pp / $69.99
If the name Cameron Silver doesn’t ring a bell it’s probably because you aren’t one of the LA elites who frequent his famous high-end vintage boutique, Decades. Even though his name would be excellent for a porn star, Silver is regarded as one of Time Magazine’s 25 most influential names and faces in fashion, which gives him the authority to dictate taste and fashion throughout the 20th century. Decades: A Century Of Fashion explains each decade’s lasting importance to fashion in a way that is both perceptive and amusing. While Silver is undeniably curt and sassy (gossiping that 1920s actress Louise Brooks “was fond of saying ‘I like to drink and fuck’”) his account of fashion designers and trends is spot-on. This makes Decades as much a reference tool for aspiring designers and fashion hardcores as a beautifully collected photographic editorial of how fashion impacted the 20th century.
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Roadshow/ABC / MA / 462 Mins
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The second series of this hugely acclaimed, ABC-financed, all-Aussie-star comedic drama is even better (and ruder) than the first, with writer/producer/frequent director/ co-creator Peter Duncan, producer/cocreator/star Richard Roxburgh and co-creator Charles Waterstreet’s anti-hero lawyer Cleaver Greene even more irrepressible and hopelessly, even joyously irresponsible than when we first met him back in 2010. Standout episodes this time include: the first, which ropes in Greene’s affair with the New South Wales premier (Toni Collette) and the activities of a hopeless terrorist (Rowan Woods, usually a director and very funny); the second, with dear old Garry McDonald in lovely form as a tireless avenger against those who use bad and bullshit English; the third, which makes amusingly scary use of a classic Hitchcock plot (spoilers?!?); and the final, intricately-connected trio of installments, which prove wittier, more exciting and far more daringly un-PC than almost any other show ever on Australian TV (except maybe the Jack Irish films), and feature truly brilliant work from Roxburgh - or, just in case you ever meet the guy, ‘Roxy’ to his mates. Special features include bloopers, a short, ABCteasing mockumentary and more. Mad Dog Bradley
Sushi Das / Bantam / 285pp / $34.95
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Deranged Marriage: A Memoir
Sushila Das, a British-Australian of Indian descent who’s long worked for The Age, here recounts her youth in the UK in the turbulent ‘70s and beyond, and it’s striking how expertly she walks several tightropes: black comedy intrudes into the darkest situations; she mocks herself for some extremes of teenage angst; and, while she was terrified of being forced into an arranged marriage (or, for long periods, any marriage), and detested the way that her parents simply would never give up on their matchmaking, her tone is always tender and forgiving. And, as we follow her from inner London to hedonistic university to scary Melbourne, as she, all the while, desperately strives for freedom, this offers much welcome political insight, and much exploration of tricky cultural issues that should prove illuminating during what is, of course, yet another volatile time. MDB
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Director Johannes Roberts and co-writer/ co-producer/star Noel Clarke (a Doctor Who refugee) evidently wanted this irksomely English sci-fi/horror to be a big hit, and yet it’s all a bit too cheap, cheesy and annoying for that. Increasingly obsessed Charlie (Clarke) comes to London’s cavernous ‘Storage 24’ unit with his mean pal Mark (Colin O’Donoghue) to confront snotty ex Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), and finds her there with protective besties Nikki (Laura Haddock) and Chris ( Jamie Thomas King), but all this dopey character drama takes a backseat when a seeming terrorist attack occurs and a seriously pissed-off FX monster is somehow locked in the joint with them. Know-alls have accused this one of ripping off Super 8 (?), but it’s, in actuality, a rather lame claustrophobic sort of deal that instead might well borrow a few licks from the unfortunately obscure Aussie outing Storage, and features a part-Alien, part-Predator, part-kangaroo creature that proves easily the most amusing and amiable character here, and which we dearly hope will munch the entire grating cast quick smart. Standard disc extras include commentary and deleted scenes, while the Blu-ray has those, blogs, featurettes and more on top. Mad Dog Bradley
Writer/director Stéphane Robelin’s sweetly melancholy comedic/dramatic piece offers a welcome antidote to the overrated Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, as it suggests that growing old is no fun and not everything, nor everyone, ends happily. Five 70something friends face uncertain futures: Annie (Geraldine Chaplin) and Jean (Guy Bedos) fight often; single Claude (Claude Rich) soberly realises that it’s tough to keep skirt-chasing into his dotage; and Albert (Pierre Richard) is wandering in his wits, much to the concern of his missus Jeanne ( Jane Fonda in fine French form), who has problems of her own. When a casual remark over one of many boozy get-togethers leads to the group moving into Annie and Jean’s stately home as an alternative to a nursing home, the stage is set for the opening of past wounds and much musing over the lives they’ve led, as Dirk (Daniel Brühl), an ethnology student initially hired to be a dog-walker, stays on to study the group and becomes their friend as fate intrudes. Wryly, even bitterly amusing at times, this belongs to the actors, with beautifully subtle performances from everyone and standout work from Richard, Fonda (speaking French with a slight American accent) and Brühl. Bitingly funny, cautiously unsentimental and powerfully sad. Mad Dog Bradley
Last Tango In Smithfield Plains
Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. An unlikely alliance develops between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha’s conscience. We’ve got five copies of In Darkness on DVD up for grabs, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Dec 6.
Magic Mike Steven Soderbergh directs this generation’s Saturday Night Fever starring Channing Tatum. Magic Mike seems to have it all: a nice car, a nice apartment and a seemingly endless supply of women. What’s his secret? He’s a male stripper with a hunger for excitement… We’ve got five copies of Magic Mike on DVD up for grabs, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details. Competition closes at midday on Thu Dec 6.
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Last Tango In Smithfield Plains is to be staged as part of Bakehouse Theatre’s BlackBox series. It’s a new play from the pen of Wayne Anthoney, who will feature in the two-hander alongside Jenn Havelberg under the direction of Shannon Mackowski. “Bakehouse’s Peter Green and Pamela Munt got some good Arts SA funding to stage BlackBox and wanted to put on a play as part of the series for older actors,” Anthoney says of how Last Tango In Smithfield Plains came about. “And last year I’d put on a play called Never A Drop To Drink in Tuxedo Cat as part of Adelaide Fringe about two nutty people. So this new one is just a continuation of that really. “So it’s about an ageing clown who meets a mature dance teacher who talks about how I used to be Humbolt The Clown for many years,” Anthoney says with a chuckle. The playwright, who says he also has another play in the works called The Not So Great Escape which is about two people who are trying to escape from a nursing home, has worked as an actor, teacher, magician and writer for many years. He played Humbolt The Clown for over 30 years and appeared regularly as that character on the daily television show Fat Cat And Friends. Anthoney has also appeared in several feature films and many television
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commercials, as well as featuring in the video for Frowns, a song by local rock band The Giveaways, where he can be seen playing with toy soldiers. He is loathe to say too much about Last Tango In Smithfield Plains as he wants it to be a surprise for audiences. “But I can say that it also involves puppetry, using overcoats as a way of exploring the characters’ subconscious. It’s a real catalyst and a big part of the show but I’m just a bit nervous about how it’s going to work. “We’re kind of wearing the overcoats and there are interactions between the puppet characters and the real characters,” Anthoney adds. “So there’s a lot of interaction and variation and it’ll be a real shock for the audience when the coats start to move.” Anthoney considers that the local theatre
scene is pretty healthy. “The state of theatres is not so healthy though,” he says. “I was heavily involved in trying to save the Union Theatre and was greatly distressed when the heritage order was over-ruled. And now Scott Theatre on Kintore Ave seems to have gone as well. It’s just a lecture theatre now. “But we do have Fringe Festival, where young people seem to easily find an old warehouse or even just an old shoebox and can put something on using a couple of lights and a chair,” Anthoney chuckles.
WHAT: Last Tango In Smithfield Plains WHERE: Bakehouse Theatre WHEN: Until Sat Dec 8
Your guide to the student experience. Approaching the end of a year of study tantalises you with a world of endless possibilities as to how to spend your well-deserved free time. While genuine comparisons can be made between what it feels like to study while it’s sunny outside and what the inmates of American Horror Story Asylum endure, once the shackles of study have been thrown off you feel totally prepared for a plethora of productivity. Getting fit, learn foreign languages and volunteering are some activities casually thrown around with weekend road trips, becoming a morning person and regularly visiting elderly relatives. Sadly, if you’re anything like me, all it takes is a few days of genuine lazing on the couch to feel a manic case of CBF, with all subsequent plans to solve world hunger and take up knitting abandoned. While volunteering at Salvos is just one suggestion I’ve made this week, you can put your study break to good use by doing something that doesn’t just keep you busy, but help progress your career further. Think of things that look desirable on a CV and try and get some of it yourself – whether it’s wrangling some work experience or brushing up on your Photoshop skills. There will still be plenty of times for Parks And Recreation marathons… Especially when you struggle to find employment after you finish study. *cough* And remember, if you have any student news, info or deals I should know about, email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au, Poke facebook.com/fasttimesripitupmag or Tweet @FastTimesRIU and I’ll do the hard work for you. Peace, Lachie.
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Fringe Benefits On Your Mobile
AC Arts Bazaar
The most exciting thing about updating you on the Fringe Benefits program is that it means that the Fringe must be drawing nearer. The second most exciting thing is that if you are one of those ‘I left my membership card at home’ people, the Fringe 2013 will be your happiest yet. For those with a smartphone, your Fringe Benefits membership will be accessible via their new mobile site, so you can display your membership card electronically rather than lugging around those weighty plastic membership cards. Since you would never leave home without your phone, you always have your card on you! Having access to hundreds of shows and deals via your phone, along with eliminating the need for administration, human interaction, posting and printing costs and a reduced impact on the environment. For those still kicking it old school with a Nokia 3310 (respect), you can still have a plastic card. For those not yet initiated, Fringe Benefits allows access to the best deals and info on the Fringe for 18- to 30-year-olds, and is expecting to have over 18,000 members by the time Adelaide Fringe kicks off on Fri Feb 15. Fri Feb 15, you say? Calendar cleared.
Christmas shopping used to be so easy as a kid. Class time was designated to you creating a woeful masterpiece so crap and impractical your parents have to keep it for the rest of their lives, because throwing it out would be the ultimate rejection of your love. With age comes the burden that you should know better, and any handmade gift made without precise skill can be deemed sloppy, lazy and cheap. As a solution to your lack of time and skill, visit the AC Arts Bazaar and pick yourself up some original handmade goods to win back your family’s love after a year of disappointment and shame. At the bazaar will be a variety of goods, including photographs, artworks, ceramics, glassware, jewellery and everything in between being sold by the students who created them. Not only will you triumph over your sibling’s thoughtless iTunes voucher, but you’ll also be supporting local emerging artists and encouraging more creative handiwork for South Australia in the future. If the idea wasn’t already appealing enough in getting your Christmas shopping done early, think of the time you’ll save not having to try and find car parks in shopping malls. Blissful. WHAT: AC Arts Bazaar WHERE: AC Arts, Light Square WHEN: Thu Dec 6, 2pm-8pm INFO: tafesa.edu.au
Fringe Benefits mobile site is live now for new and existing member at fringebenefits. com.au.
Join The Team! Given the amount of group assignments many of you have been forced to undertake this year, I’m guessing you winced when you first read that title. But your hard-earned holidays shouldn’t only be about self-love and isolation. Salvos Stores are looking for new members to join their force of friendly, enthusiastic and passionate volunteers. Volunteering some of your spare time (of which you’ll now have plenty of) to their great causes will benefit both you and the community. Volunteering at the Salvos Stores will involve you sorting donation, visual merchandising and offering excellent
customer service in the Salvos Stores so that the Salvos can continue to help over one million Australians annually with services that include housing, welfare, food, counselling, rehabilitation and aged care. Besides that warm, fuzzy feeling you get from helping others, volunteering is almost as desirable on a CV as actual industry experience. Also, unlike in a certain franchise, this kind of volunteering won’t involve evading certain death. So that’s good to know. For more info visit salvosstores.com.au/ volunteer.
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NT E D U T S F O L A DE EK E W THE Got 10 Bucks?
The student lifestyle is largely impoverished and opportunistic. Getting something for less than others is - in my view - a basic human right. As a key believer in defending human rights, I have found these student deals to help sustain life while also sustaining the bank balance.
No this isn’t a younger sibling trying to scam some cash. If you reach that stage where you don’t feel like you can go out because you “only have, like, 10 bucks” to your name this may just resurrect your social life. From Monday to Friday, the Kings are offering a deal where you can get a different meal each day for only $10. Covering all your favourite pub meals, you can’t surely mind a regular night’s meal there. Or, for $50, you can feed yourself for a week. Legendary.
Mon: Fish and chips Tue: Beef or chicken schnitzel Wed: Steak Thurs: Salt and pepper calamari Fri: Curry The Kings, 357 King William Rd, 8212 6657.
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Young North (Independent)
How To Destroy Angels An Omen EP (Null)
I have a feeling Trent Reznor is shaping himself up to be his generation’s Peter Gabriel. Both have stepped away from internationally lauded bands to follow their creative drives, in turn creating award-winning soundtracks and finding inspiration can just as easily lie in disquietingly passive passages as in sledgehammer guitars. Like his Academyapproved David Fincher soundtracks, Reznor’s How To Destroy Angels project with his missus Mariqueen Mandig and Oscar-sharing mate Atticus Ross features discreet musical inflections, glitches that skitter like silverfish and earthy instruments such as the African kalimba that rarely feature in electronica. The strangest results are offered on the askew folk of Ice Age, where Pink Floyd’s abandoned Household Objects album is crossed with Melanie’s Brand New Key. Mandig and Reznor alternate vocal duties on the atmospheric, effective premonitions of Keep It Together, Speaking In Tongues and the effective Talk Talk clunk of The Loop Closes. A warm grace.
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Axolotl Autonomy (Blank Tape)
As the larval form of Mexican salamanders, axolotls enjoy a strange, arrested development. They’re the only species that can live out their existence and reach sexual maturity while still trapped in an ugly, intermediate phase. Unless you count Chris Brown. Melbourne’s Axolotl have crawled from the lake with a lush electronic 2001 chill-out compilation under their amphibious arm. Electricity has the flavour of Zero 7 producing La Roux, Wonder is filled with blissful summer strings and Debris sounds like a glitch version of The Carpenters’ Superstar re-recorded for a Sofia Coppola road movie about a transvestite trucker and the disenchanted ghost of a Jewish Gap model.
Nantes Drones (Deadhand)
You’re correct, Nantes - it really does.
Chris Brown Don’t Judge Me (Sony)
Chris, you’re a repellent, inexcusable cockwit. Sorry – looks like we both have trouble following directions and respecting others, eh?
Ludacris Feat David Guetta & Usher Rest Of My Life (UMA)
Featuring more dodgy bars than a Manila side-street, new Ludacris single Rest Of My Life would be completely forgettable were it not for reuniting wallpaper DJ David Guetta with smug king of bland Usher. For all the wrong reasons, I’m now praying for a side-project from the pair called Gusher. Pardon my drench.
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Something For Kate Leave Your Soul To Science (EMI/Capitol)
Something For Kate fans have plenty of reasons to rejoice, with the Australian trio’s first album in six years, Leave Your Soul To Science, a winner. The long break hasn’t diminished the fans’ love and adulation, with followers lapping
up whatever frontman Paul Dempsey delivers - including his ultra successful solo debut Everything Is True during the Something For Kate hiatus. Right from the opening tune Star Crossed Lovers, the feeling of familiarity here is astonishing. It’s almost like the return of an old friend, with Dempsey’s welcome, distinctive vocals and his bandmates Clint Hyndman and Stephanie Ashworth sounding better than ever. Survival Expert and Eureka are just stunning, with the trio playing to their strengths. There are so many great moments on the album, but none are better than the tracks on the bonus CD, Shotgun Karaoke, which features Dempsey in fine form tackling Sam Brown’s Stop, World Party’s Ship Of Fools and David Bowie’s Let’s Dance. There is something to take away from each spin of Leave Your Soul To Science and it never feels like a chore. Quite clearly Something For Kate are getting better and better with age. Dempsey’s unique observations on life, combined with well-structured songs, are just a pleasure to listen to and will no doubt appease the most die-hard of fans. Rob Lyon
These delicate Melbourne Kites are sailing through the spring air with their latest EP, Young North. These kids are young and their compass is pointing due north on the path to bigger and better things. The five-tracker from the five-piece indie folkers finds their lyrical poetry blending to form a somewhat fuller sound than their previous EP Woodland, which was very well received indeed. Young North features a gorgeous gender blend of vocals that soothes your soul - like the honey in your tea or the jam on your scone. Allow their earthy instrumental offerings to entice you into their enchanting world of peaceful sounds. Maker Of My Time is an absolute cracker of a tune, catching the attention of ol’ Trips Js. That main hook just reels you in, time and time again. Squeeze The Paper Kites and their delicate and individual charm onto the shelf next your Husky and Josh Pyke CDs, then caress them on down when you’re in need of a sweet musical hug. The whole combination of Young North just goes down a treat, with instantly likeable tunes meandering through gentle Sunday afternoons. I could listen to this little number all day long. You know what? I just might. Sharni Honor
Ben Folds Five Live Review
Thebarton Theatre, Fri Nov 16 Review by Nina Bertok Pics by Benon Koebsch
Who says a head-bangin’ rock show requires screaming guitars and earthshattering drums? It turns out a trio comprising of a man-child on piano, an overweight geeky dude on bass and the world’s sleepiest man behind the kit can just as easily dominate a stage and get the crowd literally moshing to their melodic brand of alt-rock (though smashing your piano with a stool is pretty hardcore). Ben Folds Five made a stylish entrance onto the Thebby stage amidst a roaring, almost-capacity crowd, and, it must be said, a pretty damn weird choice of opening track (hard dance, anyone?). Still, even that was welcomed in comparison to the opening set from New South Wales pianist Phebe Starr who, despite an amazing set of pipes, came dangerously close to putting the entire venue to sleep with her snoozy synth-pop stylings. Watching BFF take the stage, however, was just like watching a trio of homecoming heroes back from a 13-year-long absence – the only disappointment being that they didn’t play Adelaide (most likely due to the fact that the track actually belongs in Folds’ solo catalogue, though it would’ve been nice to make an exception this one time).
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Jason Lytle
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Tinpan Orange
Dept Of Disappearance
Former Lives
Over The Sun
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Have you ever been in a relationship with someone, and even though you really wanted to, you just didn’t know how to break it off ? You keep telling yourself that maybe it will get better, or that it’s not the right time. Maybe you’ve made the concession that even though you’re not happy, you’re not unhappy, so you decide to soldier on. I feel like this is an accurate encapsulation of Lytle’s own relationship with making music. Lytle was the primary member of American band Grandaddy, a group who pioneered the ‘indie rock’ sound way back in 1992. The band’s penchant for marrying acoustics and synths finally paid off in 1998, when they started to gain recognition in Europe. Despite being influential, the band was largely ignored. They finally split in 2006, simply because it wasn’t financially viable for them to continue. Lytle re-emerged in 2009, and Dept Of Disappearance is his second solo effort. Despite perky keyboard plinks and sporadic moments of optimism, DOD is a strikingly sad and depressing album. Lyrically, Lytle seems to be lamenting his position and legacy in the music industry. He deserves more, and rightly so. Ryan Lynch
When the world’s most annoyingly glib actress Zooey Deschanel married Death Cab For Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard, I had a feeling that their nuptials were simply a way for Deschanel to assert her ‘indie’ street cred. You can’t fault Ben he was simply bewitched by her fringe and the girl-next-door façade she has spent her career perfecting. When news of the divorce hit, we all flocked to the Twittersphere to tweet our condolences, #prayforben. How would Benji handle the split? With his heart-onhis-sleeve beta male persona, he would probably take it pretty hard. Surely he would find solace and strength through the power of song! The first solo effort attributed to his own name, Former Lives is not the cathartic middle finger to the Deschanel camp that we hoped for. Instead, it is a patchwork of songs mostly written before their divorce, reflecting various points in Gibbard’s life (hence the album’s title). As a result, the songs don’t share any connecting thread, and it fails to feel like anything else other than a bunch of songs that never found a home with the other Gibbard projects. And sadly it doesn’t satiate any Deschanel bloodlust. Ryan Lynch
You may remember Tinpan Orange creating the soundtrack to last year’s sweaty summer afternoons with their indie pop tune Barcelona. These little metal citrus fruits are now back and throwing around some delicious sounds, with Barcelona also popping up on their latest album. The Melbourne band took out last year’s Triple J Unearthed title - the prestigious little award has subsequently sent them thundering around the nation. Over The Sun holds a strong bluesy undercurrent beneath alternative folk tunes, making for a unique collection of tracks and overall sound. The vocalist, red-headed flame Emily Lubitz, explores vocals comparative to fellow Melbourne folk artist Gossling. Her sound is as smooth as an after dinner mint, leaving little flakes of freshness marinating in your mouth long after you’re done. The album’s title track is an instantly likable tune which finds these resident snake charmers doing what they do best: exploring riffs that suck you in time and time again. It’s not all a soundtrack to sweetness; the record hosts some intriguingly dark moments and insights into worlds spinning out of control. It definitely keeps you on your toes. There’s even a childhood flashback with a cheeky cover of Round The Twist. Whoa! It’s like dancing in a time machine. Sharni Honor
Frank Turner Last Minutes And Lost Evenings (Xtra Mile/Epitaph)
I was excited to find this CD in my pigeonhole, then slightly less excited to discover it was a compilation of 15 previously released tracks drawn from three albums and two EPs. Then I got excited again as I flicked through the lyrics booklet and remembered how great a wordsmith Turner is. He offers punk’s idealism tempered by a mature outlook without being cynical. While some of these songs rely on a full band, my faves are those literate, perceptive and folkinfluenced tracks driven by just Turner’s voice and guitar (featuring shades of Billy Bragg, who appears on the accompanying live concert DVD). Owen Heitmann
Kylie What we did get to hear was a set that saw BFF belt out most of the new tunes from The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind during the first half, and a hell of a lot of material from their 1997 break-through album Whatever And Ever Amen during the second half. Tracks like Erase Me, Sky High and Draw A Crowd (‘If you’re feeling small and you can’t draw a crowd, draw dicks on a wall’ – best sing-along lyrics ever?) went down real well with a crowd that was obviously very familiar with Folds’ new material. Meanwhile, the second half of the set saw the guys delve into older classics – Kate, Brick, Army – and saving two special tracks for the encore (Song For The Dumped and One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces), but getting to hear Underground live for the first time in 13 years took the cake overall. Although BFF know how to deliver an amazing rock show that’ll have you talking about it long after you’ve left the venue, one thing they’re clearly not is comedians - unfortunately some lame attempts at cracking jokes about Dymocks, Botanic Pk and the Crows winning the Grand Final fell a bit flat on their face. They manage to get some giggles, but probably equally realise they should keep their day job. But the point is that even after 13 years they’ve still got it – let’s just hope it doesn’t take another 13 to get them back in our neck of the woods.
The Abbey Road Sessions (Warner)
Sculpted in a similar mode to Tori Amos’ recent orchestral revision of her back catalogue, The Abbey Road Sessions finds Kylie Minogue reimagining 25 years of hit singles. Has the influence of past Abbey Road recording icons such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Kate Bush rubbed off on Charlene Robinson? She should be so lucky. A refashioned Come Into My World exudes a weak Idol glow, Hand On Your Heart surreally draws on Jose Gonzalez’s cover arrangement and Better The Devil You Know loses its original rush. Emotional highlights arrive via the twist of danger to Confide In Me, the acoustic subtlety of Where The Wild Roses Grow and new song Flower, where sumptuous strings drown out Kylie’s tears. Now if only the woeful cover airbrushing didn’t make the lovely dame look like Casper The Friendly Ghost in drag… Scott McLennan
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Jimmy Meegan EP Launch Perhaps you’ve heard of Jimmy Meegan? Normally known for donning unfashionable flower shirts and playing bass in Jimmy & The Mirrors, Jimmy has taken time out of the band of late to record his first solo EP Chains Of Gold. The songsmith will launch these efforts at Cats At Rocket this Fri Nov 30 alongside special guests Console Warriors and Timberwolf. Tickets will be at the door.
Monkeyee Puzzle Tr
Freeman by Miranda
Instrumental outfit Monkey Puzzle Tree raises a good point when it comes to music classifications. Too often bands are feebly pigeonholed into eccentric genres with dashes lopped on – mathrock, surf-punk, trip-hop, you name it. Member Michelle Lam offers a different perspective, in that music should be categorised by what you do when you listen to it. “Maybe it comes down to what you use the music for,” she says of Monkey Puzzle Tree’s own musical style. “I sometimes think that genres are too much based on instrumentation and not enough on what the music is used for.” Following their studio debut Villanelles, Monkey Puzzle Tree will launch their second album Praeda Maris at the Promethean this Fri Nov 30 alongside support acts Amongst Myselves, Oisima
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and visuals from local artist Big Dos. The band were largely inspired by the ocean this time around, with Praeda Maris translating in Latin to ‘spoils from the sea’, something the band liken the ebb and flow of their new songs to. “The idea initially stemmed from a song that Dave [O’Callaghan, guitarist] had written called Spoila Oceani, which he thought meant ‘spoils from the sea’,” she explains. “We were later talking to a Latin professor and he informed us that it’s actually ‘praeda maris’, so I think his piece sort of started that discussion and we went along with it. The wonderful thing about the ocean is that it captures so many moods, and we feel that way about our music. It’s very changeable and capable of being delicate and soft to something quite big and majestic.” While their first record Villanelles relished in instrumental ambience, Praeda Maris is, to draw a direct and obvious visual, a bit more crashing, according to Lam. “In a lot of ways I think we’ve really evolved in how we work as composers and musicians.
Musically a big difference is that Villanelles, our first album, had an almost flowing feel to it because we jammed a lot of the songs. They came about from just mucking about, whereas with Praeda Maris a lot of the material was sought out and written beforehand. The effect is that the music is a lot more direct, to the point and less ambient.” While Lam speaks to Rip It Up the band are in the middle of rehearsal and brainstorming ideas for the album artwork, but they’re keeping tight lipped on the final product. “I don’t want to give too much away. But all the artwork has all been designed by Matt [Gorgula, drummer] and he’s put a lot of effort and time into producing something quite unique and interactive.”
Hawkai EP Launch Anthemic power trio Hawkai will be launching their new EP at the Crown & Anchor on Fri Dec 7 with Bad Blood, Broken Bones, Surviving Sharks & Jungle City. The band have also made some custom stubby holders to boot, which you can put around your very own icy beer on the night. Bands start at 9pm.
WHO: Monkey Puzzle Tree, Oisima & Amongst Themselves WHAT: Praeda Maris LP launch WHERE: The Promethean WHEN: Fri Nov 30 from 9pm
Sam Brittain Our Shining Skin (Sliding Door Productions)
Produced right in the heart of the Barossa Valley, Our Shining Skin is full of rich country life and flavour. Sam Brittain is Matt Corby (who he’s supported live) without any earsplitting wailing. And with more friends. Although technically a solo artist, it’s Brittain’s impressive band of backing vocalists, mandolin and cello players, bassists, percussionists and guitarists that make this album so vivid. Our Shining Skin is crisply produced, but holds on to some of the marshmallow softness you expect from
good acoustic music. The bonus track, a live version of the rousing Sleight Of Hand, proves that this album is more than a trick of clever production; Brittain and his band are very good musicians. Most songs off the album revolve around Brittain’s clear, strong voice, but that doesn’t stop him from experimenting. Frenzied finger-picking in Sleight Of Hand neatly matches the trot-along bounce of Bruises, but then Our Shining Skin closes out the album with a sparse and gentle sound. For fans of Midlake and Darren Hanlon, Sam Brittain is a quality substitute, locally grown. Buy SA. SA Brilliant. Advantage SA. Sam Brittain is heaps good. Ilona Wallace
Old Mate Play The Metro You probably haven’t seen your old mate in a while. They’ve been busy lurking underneath an air conditioner at their office job. Now’s the time to have a beer with them once again, as Adelaide expats Old Mate will play Hotel Metro on Fri Nov 30 with their fronds Psalm Trio, Xixi Cao, Let’s Party and Charles Buddy Daaboull from Sydney.
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