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Editor’s Note// Released within months of each other, popular 2006 films The Prestige and The Illusionist suggest that at the turn of the century, magicians were the rock stars of their age. With young damsels swooning, natty men stroking their beards in awe and managers sitting out the back counting the bullion, it was the Victorian era’s version of a Mumford & Sons gig.

Despite living in an age where most magic acts can be debunked with a single Google search, the centuriesold art of illusion and prestidigitation remains fascinating. No matter how much technology exists to demystify conjurors and their cunning sleight of hand, we retain an innate wish to believe in the impossible.

The showmanship at the heart of the best performances remains a key factor, with the finest illusionists either blinding us with explosive personalities or lulling us with hypnotic calm.

Arrive in Adelaide this month, The Illusionists is the magician’s equivalent of a super-group - heck, ringleader Brett Daniels even looks like Engelbert Humperdinck. Gathered from all the corners of the globe, they’re like The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - minus Sean Connery acting like an overpaid old grouch.

My one disappointment? GOB Bluth is still blacklisted by the Magician’s Alliance and won’t be emerging to the strains of The Final Countdown for a coin-flinging, shirt-ripping, dove-killing finale. Come on!

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Catch the long-running Californian punk outfit at Fowler’s Live on Fri Dec 7 along with Melbourne’s The Smith Street Band.

Coming from Fremantle with their self-titled debut and playing with Sydney’s Preatures and Brisbane’s The Belligerents at the Governor Hindmarsh on Thu Dec 6.

Be sure to experience Cirque Du Soleil’s exciting new show, Ovo, at Tambawodli (Park 24 on West Tce) from Thu Dec 6.

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See the dude from Butterfingers when he launches a solo album, Welcome To Flavour Country, at Currie St’s Ed Castle on Fri Dec 7.

Heading over from Melbourne to promote the release of their Four Girls LP at Grote St’s Hotel Metro with help from Alpha Beta Fox and Bruff Superior.

Experience the Brisbane duo when they bring their dreamy, synth-soaked pop to Currie St’s Ed Castle on Sat Dec 8 with support from Est Is Super.

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TAME IMPALA – currently touring their Lonerism album and bringing it to HQ on Tue Dec 11.

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What: Adelaide Festival / Who: Deerhoof with Buke & Gase and Jherek Bischoff / Where: Thebarton Theatre When: Wed Mar 6

Deerly Yours David Bowie, Radiohead, The Flaming Lips and former Pavement singer Stephen Malkmus have all professed their love for San Francisco band Deerhoof. Pitchfork went even further, calling them “the best band in the world”. Yet no matter how many cool

points they rack up, Deerhoof just want their music to hit the spot with their audiences.

“Our audience has a role in the music, it isn’t really finished until an audience hears it,” drummer Greg Saunier says. “To complete the song they’re the final step in the songwriting, ears to hear it, a brain to hear it, a heart to feel it, a body to dance to it, a mouth to sing to it, whatever, they play a role.”

What’s better than one Tim Freedman show? Two! A massive night of Freedman goodness awaits at the Promethean on Fri Dec 7. See The Whitlams frontman play at 7pm or 10pm, or join both sessions for a special Fireside Chat. It’s an evening of grand piano, sweet melody and pointed opinions. Known as a bit of a raconteur between songs, Freedman plans to link the tunes together with extended yarns such as “how I learned to stop worrying and hate Triple J” and “why Caroline Overington described my father as a Jewish accountant in The Age”. Tickets: theprom.com.au.

Fishin’ Blues “The one thing I’ve always demanded of the records I’ve made,” Taj Mahal says, “is that they be danceable.” The singer, composer, producer, two-time Grammy-winner, world traveller, fisherman and cigar aficionado has been making people dance for more than 40 years and shows no sign of slowing. Playing his own distinctive brand of music – variously described as Afro-Caribbean blues, folk-world-blues, hula blues, folk-funk and a host of other hyphenations – Mahal stars in a Bluesfest side show at the Governor Hindmarsh on Mon Mar 25. Tickets: bluesfesttouring.com.au.

Aw, WOLFPACK! Way to look after your canis lupus buddies with a gig at the Crown & Anchor to support The Lost Dogs Home in North Melbourne. The Melbourne punk juggernaut hits the stage on Sat Dec 8 with support from Shit Magnet and Exploding Cactus.

Seek On This Dude Love He’s worn lycra tights and knee high boots in front of large crowds, given himself names including Mankind, Dude Love and Cactus Jack and knows how to hold a room as firmly as a wrestling rival – seems like former WWE star Mick Foley has everything it takes to win

as a stand-up comedian. He’s teaming up with Australian comedian and lifelong wrestling obsessive Brendon Burns for a mash-up of sweaty socks, cheap pops and nostalgia from the only men in the world who can hold a room with wrestling tales for an hour-and-ahalf. The pair sold out at Edinburgh Fringe – consider this a bit of an Adelaide Fringe comedy warm-up at Adelaide Festival Centre on Mon Feb 4.

You might know COLIN HAY best as the frontman and principal songwriter of Men At Work, but he’d like to introduce himself as a solo artist and share his new album Finding My Dance. Can’t you hear the thunder? See him at Her Majesty’s Theatre on Fri Feb 8. Tickets: bass.net.au.

This month The Seekers mark 50 years since they first sang together in a little coffee shop in Melbourne in 1962. Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley are celebrating with The Golden Jubilee Tour, taking fans down memory lane with stories, memorabilia, messages of congratulations from music industry contemporaries and video clips on the big screen. See it at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre on Sat May 25. Tickets: ticketek.com.au.

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Magic: The Gathering Adelaide Festival Centre’s Festival Theatre will be transformed into a magician’s playground from New Year’s Eve when it stages The Illusionists, a family-friendly show which boasts seven internationally acclaimed masters of their profession. he Illusionists, a spectacular put together by America’s Brett Daniels (AKA The Grand Illusionist), has been successfully touring the world over the past year or so and heading to Adelaide alongside Daniels are Dan Sperry (AKA The Anti-Conjuror), often described as David Copperfield meets Marilyn Manson; Kevin James (AKA The Inventor), who specialises in magic inventions and ground-breaking illusions; Jeff Hobson (AKA The Trickster), a much in-demand magician who blends comedy into his act; along with Jinger Leigh (AKA The Enchantress) and Mark Kalin (AKA The Gentleman).

Rounding out the bill is Andrew Basso (AKA The Escapologist) who has been involved in The Illusionists since its inception and pays homage to famous escape artist Harry Houdini by recreating the late magician’s famous Chinese water torture cell act. It took Basso over a year to prepare for the routine in which he is chained upside down in a glass tank full of water.

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that one act,” he says. “It needs to be perfect because there is a lot of risk and every single detail needs to be perfect. For example, I go into the water upside down with my feet in locks and I’m also handcuffed. All I have is a little bobby pin to pick the handcuff locks and if I’m not able to do that, then I can’t perform the rest of the escape. If I can’t free my hands, I can’t do the next step.

“And even after 12 months, I’m still working on it,” he adds with a laugh.

Basso, who now considers the other magicians involved in The Illusionists to be his second family, goes on to say he is thus far the first person to undertake a version of Houdini’s famous escape act where audiences have a full view of the water container.

“So I’ve created a little piece of history by doing that but I now want to move on and present Houdini’s swinging trapeze act in a way that no one has ever done before,” he says. “So I am never satisfied and I guess I want to eventually be known as someone who can escape from anything. So my mind is always working on new things.”

When aged five, Basso had a dream of being a circus performer in later life.

“But my passion changed to magic when I was around seven or eight. I’d met a magician who, with just a little trick he did, was able to change my mother’s facial expression.

“My mother looks a bit like Morticia Addams because she’s always so very serious,” Basso laughs, “but by doing a little trick, the magician was able to bring a big, big smile to her face. So I felt that magic could be very powerful and from that day on that’s what I

wanted to do. So I forgot about the circus and began doing some magic tricks mixed with a little bit of illusion but then I discovered the art of Harry Houdini and my passion changed to escape tricks.”

It’s not widely known that Houdini was also an aviator and in 1910 had travelled to Australia to become one of the first to pilot an aircraft in a powered flight. This feat was commemorated by a postage stamp issued

by Australia Post in 2010 to celebrate the centenary of the event that had taken place at Digger’s Rest in Victoria.

“So I feel a real association with Australia through the fact that Houdini did that flight there,” Basso says. “And I also know about the postage stamp. And when I was in Australia earlier in the year, it was the 100-year centenary of Houdini first doing the water cell escape in Berlin.”

Talk then turns to the famous 1953 movie about Houdini that starred Tony Curtis.

“I think everyone knows of that film,” Basso suggests, “and there have been a few other films but none have told the real story about his life. So I am hoping that one day a director will want to make another film about Houdini and ask me to play the young Houdini.”

The performer then reels off a list of places and countries – including Singapore, Mexico, Columbia, Panama and Ecuador – that The Illusionists have visited before saying that there is talk of presenting the show in Rome next year.

“That would be fantastic for me to perform in Italy,” Basso, who was born in the Italian town of Trento, says. “Italy needs a big magic show like this. And so does the rest of Europe

Fade To Black Andrew Basso’s escape act usually goes according to plan, although he had an interesting moment during a Sydney run earlier this year.

‘When I was at Sydney Opera House to do 20 shows with The Illusionists, the water tank had cracked – probably when it was being shipped over – and was leaking quite badly,” he reveals. “So we had to fix it but when we came to do the show on opening night, it all went wrong.

“Because of the leak, I didn’t have much time to rehearse the escape. And what happened was I was padlocked and lowered into the water and then about a minute later everything went completely black. So I didn’t know what was going on.

I actually thought I might have passed out.

“But what had happened was that my assistants had lowered the stage curtain because one of them suddenly realised they’d left a very important key back in the dressing room,” Basso laughs. “So they’d lowered the curtain just in case something went terribly wrong. I actually got out okay, but the audience didn’t actually see it on opening night.”

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Bittersweet Symphony Normally when a band records an album they’re forever able to use it as a reminder of a particular time in their lives; what jobs they were juggling, the relationships on the go and the particular season. Mark Warner, guitarist for Sydney band After The Fall, produced the band’s latest album and for him Bittersweet was less about a particular time and more about places. ow when he hears the album, Warner is able to chart the evolution of each track with a list of locations around Sydney where he was house-sitting and working on the album.

“I don’t drive and we built our studio out in the bush. It’s pretty much impossible to get there via public transport,” Warner says.

“In order to keep working on it, I’d load up the missus’ car with a bunch of gear. We were house-sitting a lot in different places. I’d set up in their kitchen or lounge. It was kind of cool.

It’d be a bit of Lilyfield, a bit of Newtown, a bit of Paddington. It’d be injecting vibes from each of these places.”

Though Warner has recorded After The Fall before, this is the first time he’s ever been given the reins for a whole album. Though it was as much by circumstance as a deliberate decision, Warner admits that the band probably needed a couple of albums under their belt for it to happen.

“I don’t think we could’ve done it in the past, purely because of the way the band was. I don’t think there would’ve been the faith in me. But we’ve got the new drummer [Adrian Gallace], who’s changed the dynamic a lot. He’s kind of from a recording background. I guess I had the

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confidence in him to not make me feel insecure about it… I’d love to give a certain producer who I love a call but our budget didn’t permit any of that kind of behaviour. I’ll make it clear, I didn’t get paid.”

The album has had a slow evolution. The band have been playing some of the songs that have ended up on Bittersweet in their set for the last couple of years. Having the familiarity with the material live gave Warner the encouragement to record the album with that live feel in mind.

“One of the things we found playing the last album was that it wasn’t that much fun to play live. You couldn’t really get wasted and play it, you had to concentrate more. These songs you could easily have a couple of beers and a couple of Jammos under your belt and it’s OK. It’s pretty simple.

“The motivation wasn’t to play the songs drunk,” Warner says with a wry chuckle. “But the motivation was to connect live. If they’re fun to play live then hopefully that will translate a bit better onto record. That was the general idea there. More dumb, more angry.”

Though the band started work on the album over a year ago, this time around it was a much simpler process. The delays have been since the end of recording, waiting to get things mixed and mastered. Warner says the recording was a lot more no-nonsense.

“Before we’d spend ages double-tracking and triple-tracking, adding heaps of shit. I didn’t do it like that this time. It was more concise. Single guitar parts, not like doubling everything. I think it sounds bigger with less. That was the vibe. That was the idea.”

And one day when After The Fall are releasing their very own version of The Basement Tapes, Warner admits there are a few hidden gems.

“We probably have a lost album in there

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somewhere between the second and third album - there’s probably 10 songs of total fuckin’ weirdness which sound pretty awesome. There’s kind of like Achilles’ Last Stand Zeppelin-esque songs and white funk, which is heinous at the best of times. I’ve always recorded shit. Even on four-track since the beginnings of time, whenever that was… back in ’98.”

Theory Of Everything After The Fall are teaming up with Adelaide’s Mere Theory on their album tour. These will be Mere Theory’s final shows before they split, with Mark Warner saying the touring partnership has been in the works for quite some time.

“Nige [Black, Mere Theory guitarist] has been contacting us for ages saying we should do some stuff and I was like, ‘Yeah, but we don’t have a record out, so can we wait for that?’.

We’ve actually known them forever. We probably played with them the first or second time we ever went to Adelaide.”

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Leaving Hope Behind the positivity of the title, Hawthorne Heights’ latest EP Hope showcases a band still coming to terms with loss. It’s five years to the week since the death of rhythm guitarist Casey Calvert, with Hope’s lyrics focusing on “the positive side of life so you don’t go insane”. oxicology reports suggest Calvert died on the band’s tour bus in Washington DC from a fatal interaction of his prescription medications, described at the time by a pharmacologist as “a one in several million” death. Given the guitarist had long spurned illicit drugs, his death was even harder for the Ohio band to come to terms with. The group chose to continue on as a quartet rather than find an official replacement for their fallen brother, but vocalist and guitarist JT Woodruff suggests he now tries to focus on happy moments when he reminisces about Calvert.

“I only think about happy times when I think of Casey,” Woodruff says. “He was such a positive energy that you couldn’t help but smile.

I most certainly miss him, which makes me sad, but he never did anything but make me happy.

I’ve had several very real dreams about him, and I like to think he’s checking up on us.”

While Calvert’s death was a tragic accident, Hope’s final track Chemicals finds Woodruff taking a hard line against those who succumb to drug addiction: ‘I’ve watched my friends filled up with emptiness’.

“I am straight edge, so I really don’t have any tolerance for drugs. I cannot really associate with someone who destroys themselves and their families in the process. I prefer to deal with my

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life and schedule with a level, unclouded brain.”

Despite Hawthorne Heights’ drug-free paradigm, Chemicals’ outro ends the latest EP with something edging closer to spaced-out prog than post-hardcore. Can we expect the third installment of their current EP trilogy to take them even further into Pink Floyd territory?

“We actually all love Pink Floyd!” Woodruff laughs. “Don’t expect anything too prog from us, though. We are a rock band, and we love the energy that it provides. We are working on new music [for the next EP] now, so as soon as we are ready we will make the record.”

First visiting Australia in 2006 after the release of second album If Only You Were Lonely, Hawthorne Heights now return to Australia with a few activities to tick off the bucket list.

“We really didn’t get to see that much last time we were in Australia, so this time it’s on! I can’t wait to get back to [Melbourne takeaway franchise] Lord Of The Fries. I’d also like to go swimming in the ocean, if it’s not too cold... and full of great white sharks.”

Although the touring life can sometimes throw up rough situations (“The sleeping arrangements in Europe can get pretty dodgy,” Woodruff admits), at least the band can usually agree on what’s playing on the van stereo.

“We all agree on Hall & Oates, and that’s a fact,” Woodruff says of the ‘80s soft rock duo. “A couple of us aren’t really rap fans though, since it just doesn’t have the same appeal that other music has to me. I can appreciate good parts of all music, but rap just isn’t my preference.”

When not singing along to Maneater and I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do), Woodruff says Hawthorne Heights enjoy blitzing through box-sets of TV shows.

“We have all been blowing through The Walking Dead on tour lately. We all sit in the back of the van and crank up the zombies. Micah [Carli, guitarist] loves to watch M*A*S*H.”

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Films from the 1980s are held in similarly high regard, with Woodruff suggesting Bill Murray and John Cusack are both welcome to drop by any Hawthorne Heights gig they choose.

Cusack’s character in Say Anything even inspired the band’s 2005 single Niki FM. “Niki FM is a direct reference to the movie Say Anything - Lloyd Dobler is the man! I would happily add Bill Murray to my guest list, because I think he would be a lot of fun to talk to. I don’t care if he is an asshole or not... I think he would be a good night out.”

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Man In The Mirror Keen to make amends for his last “shit” performance in Australia, Wally De Backer – known to 350 million YouTube viewers as Gotye – is promising his upcoming homecoming tour will feature his “most vibey” shows yet. In the meantime, he just wants US radio to stop playing his song. e Backer, under his Gotye moniker, has gone from creating music in his bedroom to playing it in huge arenas all over the world. Those who have got to know him within the last year or so as a result of his Making Mirrors album, and a certain song in particular, probably assume that it has all happened very suddenly. In reality though things built up for him over the course of more than a decade.

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“It all felt very gradual I guess,” he recalls. “I’m fortunate with my Gotye project that through a combination of things over the last 10 years it has been a constantly upward momentum.

There’s a whole lot of persistence and one thing falling in place in front of another, and that kept happening over a period of time.”

There is no doubt that the massive success enjoyed by 2011’s Making Mirrors album added considerable thrust to that momentum. Prior to the album’s release though, De Backer was really unsure how it would be received.

“I actually had a lot of doubts because it was quite a struggle to get it to sound the way I wanted it to,” he admits. “There were times where I felt a bit like I’d missed my own subconscious deadlines and somehow as a result that made me a bit on edge about it. I was just feeling a bit like people wouldn’t respond to the material positively and like this could really fall flat on its arse.”

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Night Drive Wally De Backer is looking forward to bringing his live show home, not least because he harbours some disappointment at his last performances here. He was sick with the flu for a series of Australian dates, and self-deprecatingly describes his vocal for those shows as being “shit”.

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“I’m really excited to come home and play these shows in Australia because I think very easily hands down they’re going to be the greatest sounding, most vibey and best Gotye shows that I’ll ever have done. Having done so many shows internationally now I feel I’m just really connecting strongly musically with the other guys in the lineup. I’m also looking forward to spending Christmas with my family, girlfriend and her family. And I guess I’m quite excited about the idea of then just starting with a blank page next year.”

Know alone took care of any concerns he may have had. The song and its video (which received a staggering 350 million-plus hits on YouTube) seemed to immediately entrance everyone who heard and saw it. It does make you wonder if Gotye would be in the same place he is now had that song remained an album track, rather than being selected as a single.

“Well, that’s true,” he agrees. “It was the last song that was finished for the album and it did take five to six months almost of holding the whole record up to finish the song, so I guess that was partly because I had an inkling that it would be one of the strongest songs on the record. From the second I played Somebody… to my managers and to a friend and my folks, even before I’d finished the arrangement of the second chorus, almost everybody seemed to think there was something quite engaging about that track so I had a pretty strong feeling already that it was worth waiting to finish.”

De Backer believes that the song has now been overplayed in Australia and the US, where it’s often not even his own version that gets played.

“I don’t know how much you know about American radio formatting, but there are so many different subcategories. The real super-pop dancey kind of stations felt they couldn’t ignore the song but they didn’t really want to play the original. Instead of actually playing an official remix that I’ve at least approved they’ve just chosen to either commission or randomly search for someone to edit it that adds some really bad bottom end drums and some cheesy hi-hats on the top end, just kind of layered over the top of the master recording. They then put that on their playlist and they announce it as if it was the original song. I wonder how many people might come to my concerts having heard these edits and then go, ‘Hang on, where are all those beats?’.”

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Northern Songs Considering he’s spent more than a decade crafting Stars’ extraordinary lyrical vignettes, it’s surprising to hear Torquil Campbell admit to defeat in the storytelling stakes. At odds with poignant songs such as The Night Starts Here, Personal and Your Ex-Lover Is Dead, the Canadian musician suggests the nightly tales he concocts for his daughter are “incredibly boring”. ip It Up speaks with Campbell minutes before his daily bedtime ritual with daughter Ellington, asking if he plans on releasing a compendium of his nocturnal fables.

“Not unless your child likes really boring stories,” Campbell chuckles. “My improvisational storyteller skills are extremely limited. She likes stories about a pig and a frog, which I think is

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loosely based on Miss Piggy and Kermit. Their days seem filled with idyll nothingness. They go to the park, maybe the zoo, they have people over, sometimes it’s someone’s birthday… She’s asleep within three minutes, but I just keep talking as I like to live this fantasy life, wasting my days away as Miss Piggy.”

There are fewer doubts about Campbell’s abilities in the musical realm, with new album The North bursting to life with The Theory Of Relativity’s enlivening synths. Campbell says that the electronic elements of the band date back to Stars’ earliest incarnation, when the songwriter and his keyboardist pal Chris Seligman began putting together songs in their New York apartment in the late ‘90s.

“That’s how Chris and I started out – we were a bedroom electronic project and didn’t know how to play guitar. The only guitar on our records was played by Jimmy [Shaw] from Metric, who was doing us a favour as he lived in the room next door.”

Campbell says the right electronic enhancements

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Golden Acolytes Stars’ debut album Nightsongs featured a cover of The Smiths’ This Charming Man, with Torquil Campbell adding subtle nods to the iconic Manchester band in songs ever since.

Given new track Walls name-checks Hand In Glove, just how deep is Campbell’s love for The Smiths?

“Other than the people I love, there is literally nothing else more important in the world to me than The Smiths. I love them – they’re the greatest rock’n’roll band of all time. Better than the Beatles, better than everybody. Every move they made, every piece of clothing, every lyric, every guitar line – find something for me that isn’t good. If they put out The Queen Is Dead now they would instantaneously be the biggest band in the world in two weeks. If you put it out now, you’d have to add a third weekend to Coachella – that’s how big they’d be.”

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can accentuate rather than deplete music’s emotion.

“I think we’re interested in taking powerful sounds from synthesised music and giving them emotion, playing them with emotion and seeing the tension there – can you actually make this emotional? To me, New Order is a very emotional band, but if you don’t get it you’ll hear coldness.

Yeah, there is coldness there, but in that coldness is enormous passion and people using machines to soundtrack their feelings. That’s something we’ve been doing since the beginning.”

The weary sentiments of hope on The North’s standout track The 400 prove how deftly Stars unite the emotional and the electronic. Campbell explains that the song’s protagonist feels numbed by constant work upheavals.

“The 400 is a highway in Canada that runs north of Toronto and into Ontario, which is probably the size of Queensland. For a lot of people up there, if you’re working in natural resources you follow where the work goes and live from town to town. I wanted to write about a guy who’s packed his car too many times. It’s easy to change your life and move all over the place getting different jobs, but some people stay in that a little too long and suddenly find themselves without anchors in their life at a point when they really need them. I think that’s a hard thing to go through, so I wanted to write about that.”

The parallels with Campbell’s own life seem obvious, given the touring musician has just turned 40 and now has a young family to consider.

“That’s the interesting thing about writing songs for me. I write them about other people but then if I think about it they reflect on me in some way. Hopefully they do the same for most people, though. The reason songs are ‘pop’ songs is because they are popular, the reason they are popular is because they’re about everyday life. They’re not the fuckin’ Ring Cycle or religious music, they’re little and profane and life is made up of little things that have these fucking huge effects on your emotions.

I guess it’s the language of what we’ve done: we’re trying to write sign posts for you.”

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Thomas Gold The last couple of years have seen Berlin-based DJ/producer Thomas Gold release a string of smash singles, conquering some of the planet’s foremost clubs and festivals, as well as remixing the biggest names in pop (Lady Gaga’s Judas and Adele’s Set Fire To The Rain). Thomas has been building momentum since his first releases back in 2006, followed by a run of original productions over 2010 and 2011, some of which have appeared on Mark Knight’s global institution Toolroom (Marsch Marsch, The Button, Work That/Kananga), while legendary Dutch imprint Spinnin’ hosted Thomas’ link-up with Alex Kenji, What’s Up. His sound can loosely be described as progressive house with influences from electro, trance, techno, minimal and tribal. Thomas also started out his GoldCast in May 2011 as a platform for his tastes, which has continued to flourish alongside his weekly radio show, while 2012 has seen him release his track Sing2Me on Axwell’s Axtone label as well as a remix of Miike Snow’s The Wave.

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Terrence Parker

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Affectionately known to his fans as ‘TP’, Terrence Parker has become nothing short of a legend for his unusual but mighty skilful turntablism style of Detroit house music over the years. Another nickname Parker has earned himself is the ‘Telephone Man’ after becoming widely admired for using an actual telephone handset as headphones during his sets. TP has performed as a DJ in hundreds of cities in more than 25 countries throughout the world and, since 1988, has released over a 100 recordings on various labels, including top 20 hits Love’s Got Me High, The Question and albums like Detroit After Dark. Parker’s high quality of music productions, remixes and DJ skills has been recognised by organisations like the Detroit Historical Museum’s History Of Techno International Exhibit and Indiana State University’s Department Of African American Music And Culture.

Terrence Parker plays at Sugar on Thu Dec 20.

Krafty Kuts & A-Skillz Responsible for what was a massively successful Finger Lickin’ Funk EP, remixes of Flint and 2inDaBush, as well as DJing regularly under the Finger Lickin’ banner, Krafty Kuts (AKA Martin Reeves) is now firmly part of the Finger Lickin’ family. The Brighton-based DJ first developed his passion in the late 1980s and, soon after buying his first set of decks, opened his own record shop through which he identified a sound for his DJ style – a hip hop funk infusion of up-tempo beats. By the late 1990s, the sound of Krafty Kuts had been defined and landed him residencies in both Brighton and London’s Home, Fabric, 333, Electrowerks, Scala and Heavenly Social. Krafty Kuts teams up with record label owner, producer and DJ extraordinaire A-Skillz on this Australian tour, who has also established himself as one of the most highly-regarded producers in his scene with singles on the legendary Finger Lickin’ Records and the nowclassic artist album, Tricka Technology, with Krafty Kuts.

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No Regular Play Endangered Species (Wolf + Lamb)

Recorded with Eric Broucek (DFA Records/LCD Soundsystem) in Los Angeles (and featuring Jim Orso of Hot Chip on drumming duties), Panama have just released their EP It’s Not Over on Future Classic. Topping the Hype Machine charts at number one recently, the video clip of the same name has also just cracked over a whopping 130,000 views.

What’s the story behind this record?

The EP has been a work in progress for a number of years. When I first started writing I was still in my old band, Dirty Secrets, so the songs had a very different feel to them. They were more rock influenced. It took me about two years to hone my skills in electronic music and taking the songs to Los Angeles to work with Eric developed the sound even more. I guess the story behind the EP is years of hard work and big changes.

What kind of influences seeped into it during its making?

The EP definitely has a ‘summery’ vibe to it. Songs like Magic and Stop The Fire have an upbeat, tropical feel to them. We Have Love is definitely anthemic, too. I wrote it with the intention of getting people dancing. One Piece At A Time and It’s Not Over are probably the most complex tracks on the EP. The EP was really an experiment in songwriting. I wanted to write as many different moods as I could that still came from a real place.

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I think a lot of this is due to our relationship with Future Classic – they are hugely respected internationally. We’ve been lucky enough to secure a great UK and EU booking agent without them seeing us play. I also think that working in the US with Eric has given the EP more of an international feel in terms of its sound. From what I am aware of, the interest seems to be coming from Europe and America.

It’s Not Over is out through Future Classic.

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I can recall as a little kid how all cars seemed to look different. Volvos were boxy as all fuck, BMWs had distinct lines and, despite their generic, massproduced nature, Japanese cars still retained individualism. The same goes for architecture. Sure, there have been distinct movements in design, but unless you live in a cookie-cutter housing estate where you can hear your neighbour taking a shit through the paper and pine walls, most houses still retain a look of individualism. So what is the story with ‘80s-influenced synth-pop permeating the scene right now? Sure, it was fresh and exciting when Chromeo dropped Fancy Footwork in ’07, but now it’s getting a bit done. Endangered Species is not a bad album but it does seem to follow a formula. Like so many homogenous forms, this record needs to be a bit more imaginative to stand out in an already-saturated genre. Maybe it’s time to start mashing New Wave with country?

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This re-release of Minaj’s second album from April this year is overall a cry for help.

The Re-Up’s eight tracks are dedicated to Minaj’s rise to fame, with the majority of the tracks directed at the frenemies and enemies she’s made along the way – reminding everyone in the epic opener Up In Flames that she’s “got a pool I ain’t ever swam in”. Minaj’s self-proclamation of divinity in Freedom’s “they’ll never thank me for opening doors, but they ain’t even thank Jesus when he died on the cross” is a key theme.

I Endorse These Strippers with Tyga and Thomas Brinx shines because of its filth and arrogance, where other collaborations with Parker, Lil Wayne, Ciara and Cassie falter.

The Re-Up is essentially a microcosm for Roman Reloaded, as it features commercial radio sure-hits Va Va Voom, in the same vein as Starships and Pound The Alarm, with a few brilliant tracks that bite in between filler fluff. If you enjoy angry, overconfident raps with bite and catchy beats, give this collection a listen. There’s a reason why Kanye was a fan.

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Over the last few years Sven Vath’s annual round-up of techno and house has turned into a MOS Clubbers Guide for the underground, so it’s refreshing to hear the Cocoon boss return to rawer terrain for this his 13th outing. The first disc brings back the raw techno courtesy of WK7’s throwback Detroit funk of Do It Yourself and Tuff City Kids’ SFS, while Ben Sims’ Straight From Bolivia shows that Vath means he’s back in the pumping tek business – no more sexy techno. Disc two slows it down with experimental, but not blissed out or summer, techno and house courtesy of artists including Four Tet, Me and Romanthony. The Sound Of The 13th Season is the most satisfying Vath mix in half a decade. If this is the sound of Cocoon in Ibiza this season, hopefully real, pure techno will make a comeback and be the sound of the Australian summer... Though, there’s more chance of Deadmau5 turning into a seemingly cool, decent dude than that happening.

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Fedde le Grand, the ‘godfather’ of Dirty Dutch house, is again amping up his career. He lately disseminated the club hit Sparks (Turn Off Your Mind) with Nicky Romero. More is in the pipeline. The DJ/producer has had “a fantastic year”, among the high points playing his Ministry Of Sound London residency, Ultra Music Festival and global Sensation dates (including one in New York!).

Le Grand – originally from Utrecht, but now based in the southern Breda – began DJing in the late ‘90s. He’d lead a new Dutch house movement, undermining the trance hegemony – and perhaps foreshadowing trouse. Though certainly no ‘one hit wonder’, le Grand will always be most famous for 2006’s mega party record Put Your Hands Up For Detroit, its hook from a Matthew Dear track. (Le Grand actually rates Kevin Saunderson as his favourite Detroit techno DJ.) Le Grand initially released Put... on his Flamingo Recordings (started with Funkerman) before MOS picked it up. He’d become the first Dutch DJ to reach number one on the UK single charts. Detroit’s D12 unleashed a rap version and Madonna mashed up Put... with Music in concerts (le Grand remixed her Give It 2 Me).

In 2009 the sometime b-boy presented his debut album, Output, securing will.i.am as a guest. A follow-up is due next year.

“We have some great new music put together for it and some big collaborations coming up,” le Grand reveals.

Of late the DJ has focused on singles, his next Raw on Spinnin’, and remixes. In 2011 le Grand revived Everything But The Girl’s classic Missing. His bootleg proved so successful that EBTG’s label issued it officially.

Le Grand also recast Coldplay’s Paradise – and befriended Chris Martin and co.

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“I’m a really big fan of Coldplay. I’d already done a previous remix of Clocks as a bootleg for my own personal collection that everyone went nuts for, so to be asked by them to do an official remix for the new album was a real honour. The guys loved the remix and asked me to open up for them at a special concert in Spain that was streamed live on the internet. It was a very different kind of gig than I’m used to, but an amazing experience. It would be great to do more of the same in the future.”

Romero has a credit on Rihanna’s Unapologetic – and le Grand, too, aspires to produce pop.

“It’s definitely something that interests me – there are some great pop vocalists out there with a sound that I’d love to get into the studio and develop.”

Top of his wish list? Justin Timberlake and Janelle Monáe.

The adaptable le Grand continually challenges himself. While traditionally associated with electro-house, he’s veered off into techno and progressive.

“I never understood artists who repeat themselves endlessly,” le Grand says. “For me, being an artist is all about creativity and reinventing yourself... At the moment I’m very much into rockgressive.” Indeed.

Impressively, le Grand is one of few DJs to take a (public) stand on global warming.

In 2007 he was involved with a Dutch Live Earth event, even creating an anthem for it.

“I do a lot of things all the time that have an impact on the environment, especially flying, so it’s important that I take responsibility for that. In 2010, when we first used the private jet for the Takeover Tour, I made sure that we kept a record of how many miles we travelled and what our carbon

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French DJ Sébastien Léger is a lone wolf. Since 2004 this native of romantic Provence has called Amsterdam home. He misses French food and speaking his native tongue, but “otherwise it’s fine here”.

Léger, a longtime Australian DJ tourist, has had a propitious 2012, but at 10am he struggles to recall his highlights.

“It’s always really difficult to remember ‘cause every weekend I’m away and there’s some good times and some bad times.”

Nevertheless, his favourite gig was easily January’s Igloofest in Montreal. Léger played outdoors one winter’s evening, the

temperature well below zero (“freezing cold!” he shudders), to 10,000 revellers in snow gear.

He counts it in his top three gigs ever.

Next year the Frenchman will mark 20 years of DJing. The son of professional musicians, young Léger attended a music academy, studying piano and drums. But he was also into black music, especially Michael Jackson, and a breakdancer. Léger later warmed to Daft Punk’s filtered disco, loving Chicago house, and took to the turntables. Initially, he DJed US garage. By 1998 Léger was producing under the handle Deaf ’n’Dumb Crew.

However, he soon established his own name. Léger has had music out on labels as varied as Defected, Intec and Dirtybird.

He’s even had his own imprints, currently

Mistakes Music. He’s also released three albums, the last one being the conceptual Planets, via Mistakes in 2007. Along the way, he’s remixed both Dannii and Kylie Minogue, plus Justin Timberlake (What Goes Around... Comes Around), and covered DJ Rolando’s Detroit techno classic Knights Of The Jaguar. Still, he’s best known for 2006’s trancey electro Hit Girl.

Though Léger’s output has recently slowed, this year he has had music on Mistakes. Any projects coming up?

“For now, for myself, there’s nothing much ready because I’ve been on sort of a break from the studio for a few months, actually, to kind of find myself a little bit, get some fresh ideas again, and get back on track next year with a stronger new sound and everything.

footprint was, then we went ahead and offset that by planting a load of trees.”

Le Grand will hit Australia’s festival circuit this summer. “I’m really looking forward to coming back – it’s been such a long time since I was last there – and I’ve got some happy memories and [I’ve] made some really good friends,” he enthuses. “I’ll definitely be roadtesting my new material, so there’ll be some Fedde music that you won’t have heard before. I’ve also got a lot of new tracks in the bag, as well as some big classics and some secret bootleg editions that I’m ready to let loose.”

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So for next year I’m planning to finally do the album that I was supposed to do for four years already. That’s my plan.”

Léger notes the irony of Planets caming out before nu-rave blew up – it really does seem like ages ago.

“Exactly! The album is something that everybody asks me [about] all the time, ‘When is the new one? When is the new one?’ The music is moving so fast, so it’s always difficult to do something that is relevant six months later.”

He has cut tracks only to change his mind about them.

Léger may reside in a city equated with Dirty Dutch house, the counterpart to ‘French touch’, but he isn’t overly influenced by any scene. If anything, he’s frustrated with dance music – it sounds monotonous.

“To be honest, it’s not really fresh anymore.”

Léger tired of electro-house – and in 2008 criticised Ed Banger’s ‘noise’. While not into dubstep, he feels that it at least represents something novel.

“I think techno is pretty much the same for the last few years.”

This is another reason he wants his next album to sound “different”.

For the most part, Léger isn’t nostalgic. The DJ says it’d be “stupid” to revert to the garage he used to play, deep house revival aside. That said, he doesn’t care much for what now passes as urban music following EDM’s takeover. It is basically “horrible dance music”.

“It’s kids’ music – if they want it, it’s fine. I mean, if I was 16 maybe I would like this today.”

Léger is returning to Australia, with a date in Adelaide (he’s going to New Zealand and New Caledonia on the same leg). What can punters expect to hear?

“It’s gonna be funky, more or less techno or house, in between, but [with] energy – maybe a bit slower than it used to be... I think, like, slower, funkier techno music.”

WHO: Sébastien Léger WHERE: White Rabbit WHEN: Fri Dec 14

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FRI JAN 18

SAN CISCO (Freo), PREATURES (Syd) & THE BELLIGERENTS (Bris) @ Governor Hindmarsh APES (Vic) @ Exeter

NIGHTWISH (Finland), EYEFEAR & BLACK MAJESTY @ HQ CARMEN MARIA VEGA (France) @ Space Theatre THE AUSTRALIAN CLOWNS (Vic/SA/NSW) @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI DEC 7 TIM FREEDMAN (Syd) @ The Promethean (7pm and 10pm) LAGWAGON (US) & THE SMITH STREET BAND (Vic) @ Fowler’s Live HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS (US) & SIENNA SKIES (Syd) @ Black Market EVIL EDDIE (Bris) @ Ed Castle

SAT DEC 8 WOLFPACK (Vic), SHIT MAGNET & EXPLODING CACTUS @ Crown & Anchor GOTYE (Vic) & BERTIE BLACKMAN (Vic) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre WOOLLEN KITS (Vic), ALPHA BETA FOX & BRUFF SUPERIOR @ Hotel Metro 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

SUN DEC 9 JENNIFER LOPEZ (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

TUE DEC 11 TAME IMPALA (WA) @ HQ

THU DEC 13 PIGEON (Bris) @ Jive THE PIGS (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf LOREN (Vic) @ Grace Emily

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

MON DEC 31 SUMMADAYZE: THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS (UK), MARK RONSON, KIMBRA, MIA, BOOKA SHADE and so many, many more @ Rymill Pk

SAT JAN 19 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS (US) @ Jive

SUN JAN 20 BOYS OF SUMMER: DEEZ NUTS (Vic), THE COMEBACK KID, FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS & HAND OF MERCY @ Adelaide Uni Bar AUSTRALIAN CLOWNS (Vic/SA/ NSW) @ Governor Hindmarsh

WED JAN 23 ALESTORM (US) @ Fowler’s Live

THU JAN 24 WOODS (US) @ Format RORY ELLIS (Vic) @ Gilbert Hotel

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

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

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 JAN 10 PETER MURPHY (UK) & BRILLIG @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI JAN 11 STICKY FINGERS (Vic) & BABYLON BURNING @ Governor Hindmarsh

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 X FACTOR LIVE: SAMANTHA JADE, THE COLLECTIVE, BELLA FERRARO, NATHANIEL WILLEMSE, 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

The five-piece not only meet within Pigeon music, they also remix their tunes.

“That’s the electronic side in us coming out,” Harley admits. “We all love getting on our laptops and getting involved in the music programs coming out. There are so many good music programs and so much you can do with them. Some people think there is less creation when a computer gets involved, but that’s a complete myth to me – I think it’s as valid as any instrument. Though I have reflected at certain stages on how good it is to be creative with boundaries, like after having a deeply creative period on a laptop and then coming back to playing a riff on a guitar and going, ‘Wow, this is pretty sweet actually!’.”

WHO: Pigeon WHAT: Fortunes (Independent) WHERE: Jive WHEN: Thu Dec 13

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COMING UP

TUE FEB 12 CELTIC THUNDER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre WED FEB 13 CELTIC THUNDER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre TUE FEB 19 RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre WED FEB 20 CAROLE KING (US) @ Festival Theatre THU FEB 21 SIR CLIFF RICHARD (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre JULIA STONE (Syd) @ Flinders St Baptist Church FRI FEB 22 NORAH JONES (US) @ Festival Theatre THE ANGELS 100% (Syd) & DIVA DEMOLITON (Bris) @ Vine Inn (Nuriootpa) SANTANA (US) & STEVE MILLER BAND (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SAT FEB 23 A DAY ON THE GREEN: DIESEL (Syd), MARK SEYMOUR (Vic), DARYL BRAITHWAITE (Vic), THE BLACK SORROWS (Vic), PSEUDO ECHO (Syd) & 1927 (Syd) @ Annie’s Lane (Clare Valley) THE ANGELS 100% (Syd) & DIVA DEMOLITION (Bris) @ Bridgeway Hotel

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decent live show before doing any gigs, and we got really good responses. I think one of our first shows, the promoter from Parklife was there and we got booked for Parklife.

“Then we won one of the spots at Splendour [In The Grass], and then the festivals kept coming in,” he laughs. “It was fantastic. I think the studio is very important for us because a couple of us come from production backgrounds, so we like to have things happen in the studio as well – it’s a comfort thing. It’s a big part of the compositional process and then it gestates in a jam and grows from there.”

Each member has a variety of other projects in which they’re involved – Harley works in the singer songwriter vein, whereas the “keyboards player [Aaron Day] is really into funk and hip hop, the saxophonist [Luke Cuerel] is a jazz-head, the bass player [Chris Paget] is just a complete rock sorta guy, the drummer [Nick Kirk] does house, real dancey sort of stuff ”.

The Pigs

JOE PERNICE (US) & NORMAN BLAKE (Scot) @ Grace Emily

SAT FEB 9 COLIN HAY (Vic) @ Arts & Convention Centre (Barossa Valley)

LOS CORONAS (Spain) @ Space Theatre

They recently released their second EP, Fortunes, with the single All That Bad debuting at number two on the Triple J Unearthed chart.

“It’s definitely been an eye-opener,” admits an obviously surprised Danny Harley, Pigeon singer and guitarist. “Music is presenting itself more as a career option, which is great.

We’d started a bit of a jam band and it was working pretty well so we thought, ‘Why don’t we put some weird stuff together?’. We created this strange music and just sort of released it.

“Live has always been a really important aspect for all of us, so we made sure we had a

THE PRESETS (Syd), PARACHUTE YOUTH & LIGHT YEAR @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre

COSMO JARVIS (UK) @ Crown & Anchor CHAPELIER FOU (France) @ Space Theatre

SAT JAN 5

Before they released their first single, Oh Hebe, earlier this year, Brisbanebased five-piece Pigeon found themselves leaping straight from indie clubs into the nation’s major festivals.

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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

AUSTIN LUCAS, CLAUDE HAY & PJ BOND @ Grace Emily

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The Pigs have just released their third full-length album, the long-awaited The Great Bluegrass Swindle, and are currently touring it around the country which will bring the quartet to Adelaide for the very first time next week.

As suggested by the album title, the harddrinkin’ outfit are bluegrass musicians but they mix their highly contagious originals such as Poor Emily with popular songs, such as Beyoncé’s Single Ladies and Kanye West’s Gold Digger, and give them a rollicking banjo and mandolin-driven sound.

We speak to mandolin player and singer T-Bone Pig who plays in the band alongside his brother, vocalist and ukulele player Stretch Pig, with drummer Cousin Shamus and double bassist Cousin Archie making up the rhythm section.

“The tour’s been going for a couple of

months now but we’ve still got more places to go,” T-Bone begins. “And we play Tamworth Country Music Festival next year for the eighth time before going overseas again.

“We’ve developed a bit of a following over in Germany and Denmark so we play a few of the festivals over there and some club shows,” he adds. “But next year we’re hoping to develop that overseas following and take it further.”

The Pigs formed almost 10 years ago and have since become a popular act at music festivals on the east coast. The video of their version of Beyoncé’s Single Ladies has also scored airplay on Spicks And Specks as well as Rage.

“We’re just a fun band really,” T-Bone considers. “We started it off that way by just playin’ in pubs but people kept comin’ to the gigs so we started taking it seriously.

“And the story goes that the cover songs we do are actually our own from many years ago that have been stolen by the people doing them now.

“That’s the story,” he suggests with a sly

chuckle. “And they always sounded better with a banjo in them anyway.”

The Pigs, who have appeared on television’s Australia’s Got Talent performing Gold Digger and whose line of merchandise includes blue singlets along with a macho moisturising cream, are not averse to knocking back a few beers. T-Bone is concerned, however, when told that the Adelaide venue at which they will be performing, Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel, stocks only boutique brews.

“Shit, I better warn the others,” he says.

“Those fancy beers might be too rich for The Pigs’ blood.

“And we don’t like beers that have any stuff floating around in them,” T-Bone concludes.

“Y’know, fermented nuts and stuff like that.”

WHO: The Pigs WHAT: The Great Bluegrass Swindle (Pigs) WHERE: Wheatsheaf Hotel WHEN: Thu Dec 13

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AUSTRAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Austral House Band (7pm)

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DJ Lumeire

DUKE OF YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz. Front

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dave Hunt (7pm)

HOPE INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Horizon

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Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B

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HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bands

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ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Band Room: live bands (9pm)

Suckerpunch

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ELECTRIC CIRCUS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Proj3cts (9pm)

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HQ â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday)

TAPAS ON HINDLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco

EMU HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke

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(7.30pm)

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LA BOHEME â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (9pm)

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LAVISH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sok and DJ Spin Dokta

TEQUILA REA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rude Not To! playing funky beats

EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Apes & Sunbirds

CAFÃ&#x2030; NOVA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lily & The Drum (8pm)

LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acoustic Jam with Jelly & Friends

THE COVE TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Full Circle

GASLIGHT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Groove Thursdays with The Peter

CAMEO BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests

LIMBO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; resident DJs Japeye, Alley Oop and She Said

THE CUMBERLAND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A Little Bit Different featuring local

Harris Rhythm Cats

CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Ride

LONDON TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind

acoustics and late night DJ

GILBERT STREET HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sweet Baby James & Rob

Into The Sun DJs (1am) Band Room: Hawkai album launch

Fridays with DJ Wolfman

THE GOODY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Gex (9pm)

Eyers (7pm)

with Surviving Sharks, Bad Blood & Broken Bones and Jungle

LORD MELBOURNE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Laura Lee

THE HAUS: HAHNDORF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Marcus

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; San Cisco, The Preatures and

City

MARBLE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Uni Night with DJs

THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; live entertainment

The Belligerents

DOCKSIDE TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Blue Flame Special

MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; live acoustic music

THE SOUL BOX â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pete Jenkins Band, Lady Voodoo & The

GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kelly Breuer, Bart Thrupp and Kelly

DOG & DUCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DTF with D Foe, Krunk, Dom P, Ryley, Kid P

MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show

Rituals and Natalie Zeleny (9.30pm)

Menhennet

and MC Jon-E

(2am)

UNION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Pauly plays â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s

GRAND BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; OMG

DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Downtown with DJs Derek

MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Midnight Specials

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JETTY BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; No Use For A DJ Name (8pm)

Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K

LA BOHEME â&#x20AC;&#x201C; French Connection with DJ Zooma (9pm)

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MARBLE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ladies Night with Dylan Sanders, VIP,

DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Corey Stewart Duo

Rupheo, Mike Wills, Ben Earle and Acid Please!

ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Full Tilt live bands and party DJs

MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJBeeJay and guests (9pm)

ELECTRIC CIRCUS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N

RED SQUARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth, Decker

WINDSOR HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (9pm)

NORWOOD HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Open Mic Night

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WOODCROFT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rock The Boss

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EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ (8pm)

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Armac and AJ (8pm)

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EMU HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Voodoo Slang (8pm)

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ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Skream DJs: Terrence, Ryley and Scott Holder

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Jacket, False Ends, Icyu, Skyshot and Dirty Boulevard (7pm)

Day Of Wrath, Raven Black Night, Fragmenta and Dressed

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Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse

EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Thunderclaw and Acid Mountain

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Xmas Show: Let It Be Beatles. Front Bar: Pretty Ugly

Michael Constant plus MC Kris

THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clearway WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Max Savage & The False Idols with Hurricanes

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Readymades and Hawking

Saturday 8th ADELAIDE UNI BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mere Theory with After The Fall,

SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Harmonics with

Before The Aftermath, Move To Strike and DJ Sonny Burnett

Jesse Deane-Freeman

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Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm)

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SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC

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GARAGE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs (10pm)

LONDON TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and

CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wolfpack album launch with Shit

GEPPS CROSS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke disco with Craig Anthony

MC Renard (10pm)

Magnet and Exploding Cactus plus DJ Azz

GILBERT STREET HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Marky Polo (8pm)

MANNUM COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A Tribute To Dimebag

CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Nicole (8pm)

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Xmas Show: For Your Love:

featuring Age Of Horror, Headbore, Gorlapse, Alkira and The

DRAGONFLY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s British Rock Invasion

Art Of Domination

everything in between

GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Wilderness Society end of

MARBLE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I <3 MB with DJs and MCs plus national and

DUKE OF YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B

year bash featuring The Timbers, Sour Sob Bob, Loren Kate,

international guests

and MC Scotty

Mitchell P Ward and Dan Spencer

MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs playing the best in house and

ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Plus One Saturdays with YesYou and Est Is Super

GRAND BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Grand Bar Saturdays with DJ DMH and DJ

electro

ELECTRIC CIRCUS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior,

Rupheo

MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am)

Dancespace and friends

HACKNEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ

MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pash

EMU HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Highlights (9pm)

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(5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm)

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WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy

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Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm)

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GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Improv Cabaret

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PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm)

LA BOHEME – The New Cabal (9pm)

SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller

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THE COVE TAVERN – Complete Trivia

MANSIONS – live band karaoke

THE GOODY – Complete Trivia

MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm)

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THE GRIFFINS – fresh, funky and progressive tunes

MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection

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THE KINGS BAR – Old Skool Funk with Nixon and Penfold.

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PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm)

BOATHOUSE TAVERN: TAPEROO – Complete Trivia

THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions

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CROWN & ANCHOR – Dieselwitch Acoustic with Frank Lloyd

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SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr

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GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Complete Trivia

BOTANIC BAR – Gemma

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OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Jake The Snake (8pm)

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WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Luke Thompson and Anita Wardell

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COLONNADES TAVERN – Memory Lane Trivia (12.30pm)

WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – Creating Styles Karaoke

RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy

CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p

(9pm)

ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm)

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SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon

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The Man With The Iron Fists Speaking from his home “in Los Angeles, America”, RZA keeps saying that he’s distracted by his wife’s cooking during the following interview (“She’s making potato salad for tomorrow night!”), an appealingly homely touch considering that we’re meant to be talking about the wild and crazily violent The Man With The Iron Fists and, perhaps, his ongoing involvement as a key member in the slightly scary Wu-Tang Clan. ron Fists is RZA’s first feature film as a director but not his first film of any kind.

“I’ve done some music videos and I’ve spent some of my own money doing my own sort of things,” he explains, “but this is my first opportunity to have a real budget, to work with real characters and do a real Hollywood movie.”

And it’s certainly an ambitious project for a first-timer, as he directs himself (as the unnamed - or maybe not - ‘Blacksmith’) and incorporates wire-work, stunts, a little CGI,

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dangerous fight scenes, luxurious costumes and period detail, multiple time frames, plot basics borrowed from the western, one Oscarwinning actor - and more.

“Directing yourself is quite a thing, yes…

This was a weird character and his personality was very morbid, which is very not like me. You know, one critic said, ‘RZA mopes around in the movie’, and yes - exactly! He was moping!

He was in a strange place, he was a fish out of water, and he was in love with a hooker! He wasn’t a happy guy!... And directing the rest of the movie, you know, some days it was tough, and some days I had to give my cast and my crew my all, all of my attention - and then I had to go in and be my blacksmith too! So yes, it was pretty challenging.”

He’s also been living with the film for a while.

“You know, I think that the first time that I went and wrote on my computer, ‘The Man With The Iron Fists, A Film By RZA’, was in 2005, and here we are at the end of 2012…

I made it ambitious, yes, but I really wanted to make it more ambitious, to put more into it, as that’s the kind of guy I am. I’m always ready for a challenge, I have a really big imagination, and once I start on something I really give it everything. It’s a martial arts

film with action and gore and blood and everything else, and I think that it’s a great film for the audience, but I think that there’s more to it than just that.”

There is more to it indeed, as the plot is also very obviously riffing on the western (particularly one of ‘Presenter’ Quentin Tarantino’s faves, Rio Bravo), and RZA agrees.

“Yes, it is a western too, but I was also hoping that there was a bit of Star Wars in there as well. There’s a magical element in there that I wanted, or even some science fiction… And, you know, it is my film, so I’m a bit biased about it, but, as well, it’s just a great journey! We had to edit down the film, but there’s still a lot that the characters go through, and they all have a personal journey.”

RZA starts talking about the cast he assembled to play these characters, and evidently he loves them all.

“Russell Crowe [as British colonel Jack Knife] did it as a favour, as a buddy, as a mate.

We respect each other as artists and we’re friends and we’ve spent time together. We just know where we stand, and he wanted to support me as an artist, and help me be recognised as an artist. And, for me, I wanted him to have a fucking good time!... And with Lucy Liu [as brothel owner Madam

Re-Enter The Wu-Tang While RZA speculates that his next film as a director might be a Genghis Kahn epic, there is also unfinished business with Wu-Tang Clan.

“Our 20th anniversary is coming up, and we’ll all be getting together soon. And maybe if everyone wants to sign on and come on board, you know, we’ll be playing at Coachella or something. It’ll be great to all get back in touch, see my friends - and maybe close the book.”

Blossom], I just got lucky: I wanted her to be in the film, and we had this casting agent who reached out to Lucy for me… I’ve always loved Lucy, and I’ve always wanted to work with her. I had a crush on her at one point too, as she’s a very beautiful woman, and I also thought about stalking her once!... And Rick Yune [as the noble Zen Yi], you know, he was great too, and he was so tough - but he had such a beautiful smile!”

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The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (M) While writer/director/executive producer Stephen Chbosky’s character piece (as drawn from his own novel) has much charm, it’s also surprisingly troubled, and comes from a core of real pain. Freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman) has had a bad time of it in his early teens and yet now he must somehow confront the horrors of high school, and after being either bullied or ignored during his first few weeks he finally summons up the courage to speak to show-off senior Patrick (Ezra Miller, so frightening in We Need To Talk About Kevin) and Patrick’s cool, sensitive step-sister Sam (Emma Watson, continuing her string of smaller films in the wake of the end of you-know-what). And pretty soon they’re all dangerously close, as Charlie becomes part of a clique of proud misfits, attends midnight

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party-along screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, yearns for Sam (and no wonder) and finds himself more and more preyed upon by his own problems.

What could have been a simple drama about us-and-them besties is here something far more moving and even, at times, unsettling, with wonderfully unaffected playing by Lerman, Miller and Watson, adult stars shining in small roles (Dylan McDermott and Kate Walsh as Charlie’s parents, Paul Rudd as his English teacher), terrific use of music (from David Bowie to Dexy’s Midnight Runners) and a sense of unsentimental sympathy for the plight of teenagers. That mouthful title is a bit of a problem, but it doesn’t really matter, as this is surely the ‘sleeper hit’ of the year (at just about the last minute too).

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Adelaide Cinémathèque Christmas Event Mercury Cinema

Adelaide Cinémathèque wraps up for another year with a Christmas celebration featuring director Vincente Minnelli’s Judy Garland-starring musical Meet Me In St Louis (1944) and members encouraged to bring along a friend for free. Details about this event and all you need to know about how to get yourself a Cinémathèque membership for 2013: mercurycinema.org.au.

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Love Story (MA) Director/co-writer/topliner/cocinematographer/et cetera Florian Habicht’s one-off flight of New York-saturated fancy looks like it was cobbled together out of almost nothing in only a few weeks, which it was, and yet there’s much here that’s engagingly sweet, biting and nutty. Infatuated with a mysterious woman (Masha Yakovenko as ‘herself ’) he sees incongruously carrying a slice of cake on the subway (a striking, obviously contrived sequence), German/New Zealander Florian eventually tracks her down and, as the title suggests, they start a goofy relationship.

However, there’s much more going on here, as this also works as a fictionalisation of that genuine intimate partnership, a deconstruction of the romantic comedy genre itself and a memorable study of modern attitudes to love and sex, as Florian seeks the advice of multicultural, mostly friendly, always unscripted and winningly wise New Yorkers, whose suggestions as to how to keep the ‘plot’ going are taken on board and guide us to a climax, of sorts, that does disappoint just a little (but what did we expect when that’s what always happens in love stories like this when ‘reality’ keeps intruding?).

Continually commenting upon itself (especially as Florian talks to his dad Frank via Skype and the old man enthusiastically offers ideas taken from Desperately Seeking Susan and advice for making blockbusters), Habicht Jr’s decidedly uncategorisable and gleefully oddball no-budgeter has been labelled Woody Allen-ish, but it isn’t really (and thankfully).

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The Man With The Iron Fists (MA) The directorial début of key Wu-Tang Clan main-man RZA, who co-wrote the script with co-producer and bit-player Eli Roth (whose mate Quentin Tarantino ‘Presents’ the thing), this ambitious, sometimes pseudo-Grindhouseish, sometimes irksomely confused martial arts extravaganza also notably plays like a Chinese western (an ‘eastern’, perhaps?). In feudal China, an unnamed (or maybe not) blacksmith (RZA) works to earn funds to save his true love Lady Silk ( Jamie Chung) from the brothel in which she works for Madam Blossom (the fabulous Lucy Liu, star of Tarantino’s Kill Bill, of course).

When Jungle Village becomes the hotspot for some rather complicated intrigues, the basic plot of Rio Bravo takes over, and three mismatched men must unite to fight the common enemy (headed by Byron Mann’s Silver Lion), and they are: the noble Zen Yi (Rick Yune); Jack Knife (Russell Crowe), a womanising British (!) colonel; and the blacksmith himself who, after incurring Silver Lion’s wrath, has his forearms replaced by iron fists, as the title suggests.

RZA has spoken often of his love for the martial arts epic, especially its ‘70s golden age (which the deliberately tacky opening credits seek to salute), and yet his love letter to the form is an odd one, with staples of the genre (plot incoherence, frenzied overacting, too much wire-work) alongside traits from the western, the horror and gore movie, Blaxploitation and more - all with a driving, N-word-heavy soundtrack contributed by RZA (or ‘The RZA’) and his prestigious pals.

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Moonlight Cinema continues in grand style, with: PJ Hogan’s Mental (MA) on Thu Dec 6; Looper (MA) on Fri Dec 7; Hotel Transylvania (PG) on Sat Dec 8; Alex Cross (MA) on Sun Dec 9; Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love (M) on Tue Dec 11; and Paranormal Activity 4 (M) on Wed Dec 12. All details about screening times, ticket prices and food, drink and other specials: moonlight.com.au.

Red Dawn (M) Thor, The Comedian, Peeta Mellark and Tom and Nicole’s ‘practice’ child join forces against the North Koreans in the remake no one expected, but shouldn’t be surprised to see.

With the economy in turmoil and unrest growing across the world, brothers Jed (Chris Hemsworth) and Matt ( Josh Peck, The Wackness) are happy living in the land of the free and the home of the brave, but when they awake one morning to the sound of gunshots, they find their quiet town being invaded by the North Korean military. Taking point from their father, the local sheriff, the boys get a group of neighbourhood teens (including Josh Hutcherson and Connor Cruise) to safety, and using Jed’s military training, the kids turn guerilla, fighting back against the Koreans while using the name of the high school football team, the Wolverines, as a message of defiance against the enemy, and of hope for the captive townspeople.

While maintaining the concepts and key scenes of the 1984 ‘classic’ that introduced Charlie Sheen to the world, this is a modernised story with less ambiguity surrounding the enemy, more Hollywood heroics from the kids and even a few surprises.

A companion piece to the recent Tomorrow When The War Began, it seems the only thing war is good for nowadays is letting Hollywood caricaturise the strength of the human spirit and the resilience of youth, and seemingly urge us all to revolt in the name of freedom as we leave the cinema.

Whatever you say, Hollywood! Wolverines!

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Opening But Unrated Fun Size (M), if it’s still showing somewhere out there, is a teen-targeted, Halloween-set comedy featuring Victoria Justice, Chelsea Handler and an actually acting Johnny Knoxville.

Here Comes The Boom (M), more comedic hi-jinx from that damn Happy Madison stable, offers mixed martial arts gags aplenty, Kevin James, Salma Hayek and Henry Winkler.

And director Jason Moore’s peppy filming of Mickey Rapkin’s book Pitch Perfect (M), a most musical character comedy with lots of amusing a cappella crooning, stars Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Ben Platt, Brittany Snow, John Michael Higgins, co-producer Elizabeth Banks and the really-getting-around Rebel Wilson as ‘Fat Amy’.

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FLIP IT HERE

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Cooking With Dennis Leslie Executive Chef The Brasserie

Here’s another easy dinner for everyone to try. I love easy, tasty meals and I am really getting into ‘dude food’ at the moment. This is a buttermilk chicken and Cajun spice mix recipe for the next poker night.

Cajun Buttermilk Chicken / Serves 4

For the Cajun mix ¼ cup of salt 2 tbspn Cayenne pepper 2 tbspn paprika 1 tbspn onion powder 1 tbspn freshly ground white pepper 1 tbspn freshly ground white pepper 1 tbspn garlic powder 2 tsp dried basil

The Curious Squire Adelaide has a new home for craft beer with the newly opened the Curious Squire in North Adelaide. Replacing the former Sparrow Kitchen & Bar on O’Connell St, the Squire is a brand new bar and restaurant based around the James Squire brewery brand with an American-infused menu, joining the growing trend of deep-fried eateries like Pearl’s Diner and Plant 13.

Some of the food items to match your frosty

pint for lunch or dinner include nine tales con carne, mozzarella sticks, buffalo wings, burgers, wood oven pizzas and deep fried Oreos. Oh man, dessert win! Food aside, the selling point of this new eatery is the beers on tap – the full range of James Squire beers such as Sundown Lager, The Chancer Golden Ale, One Fifty Lashes Pale Ale and Jack Of Spades Porter will be available. The joint is open Monday to Sunday, so there’s

1 tsp chilli powder ¼ tsp dried thyme ¼ tsp ground mustard 1/8 tsp ground cloves For the buttermilk chicken 1kg chicken wings 500ml buttermilk 250g plain flour 2L vegetable oil

ample opportunity for you to go and tuck into a butcher, a schooner, a midi, a pot or a pint, whatever your caper is.

WHAT: The Curious Squire WHERE: 10 O’Connell St, North Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Thu 11am – 12am, Fri 11am – 2am, Sat 9am – 2am, Sun 9am – 12am CONTACT: thecurioussquire.com / 8267 6835

Local Libations With your canned heat cohort Shane A Ettridge. Proudly available at The Kings.

Cibo Launches Summer Menu Cibo Espresso has officially launched its new summer menu into all 17 of its SA Adelaide stores, including the coffee franchise’s most recent addition on the corner of Hindley St and Bank St. The new

menu embraces the seasonal change with six new savoury menu items, including a panini with Italian prosciutto, ricotta, sun-dried tomato and glazed orange, the ‘trameizzini uova’ with truffled egg, poppy seeds and lettuce and the quinoa salad with shamed parmesan. We’d like to tell you in detail what they taste like, but after our box of tasters arrived in the office they were devoured within a two-hour time span.

All we can say is we remember them being delicious… Check out ciboespresso.com.au to find the store closest to you.

The days of tempranillo, pinot gris and gewüztraminer dominating alternative varietal sections of wine lists across Australia are gone. The subject in case today is a member of the emerging varietals club, an interesting fact though as it just so happens to be the second most planted grape in the world.

EnterTorzi Matthews’ 2011 ‘Vigna Cantina’ Trebbiano.

Hailing from the Barossa, this smart player has been turning heads among wine aficionados and your average swiller.

First impressions of lemon peel and green apples on the nose flow through into the smooth yet tangy splash on the palate with crunchy acidity. It is clear that French oak has been used but not abused in the crafting of this dry but textural drop with attitude. Best enjoyed with a plate of snapper while listening to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

Photos by Jun Pang

Torzi Matthews ‘Vigna Cantina’ 2011 Trebbiano (Barossa Valley)

For the Cajun mix: 1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly.

For the buttermilk chicken: 1. Mix 2/3 of the Cajun spice mix together with the buttermilk.

2. Place the chicken wings into the buttermilk mixture and marinate for at least 30 minutes, or overnight is better.

3. Once marinated, strain excess buttermilk and dust with flour. Then heat the oil to 180C using a thermometer.

4. Deep fry the wings until golden brown and cooked through, test by cutting one open.

5. Once cooked, toss in a bowl seasoning with remaining Cajun mix.

If you want Dennis to recreate your favourite dish, let him know by posting on our Facebook page facebook.com/ripitupmag

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 A deep confronting challenge has now passed. Mars has moved through his meeting with Pluto. Chances are something significant in your life has shifted on its axis. That bewildered look on your face will slowly relax as you digest, integrate and re-orient to the new you.

Taurus 21.04/20.05 As Venus wiles away her time in mysterious Scorpio, so she takes you down into her depths.

Scorpio really isn’t all that mysterious. It is your job to simplify it. Essentially Scorpio is about turning around our hurts and sensitivities and making them into creative gold.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 Jupiter is directly opposite the sun. These are both big energies and you are right in the thick of it. The sun in Sagittarius is firing up the hunt for vitality and truth. Jupiter is opening up a big playful field of possibility.

Stay away from distractions.

Power up your creativity.

Leo 23.07/22.08 With the sun in Sagittarius, you are fired up to get out there and hunt for all the things on the outside that bring you closer to who you are. Travel is in order – but not as a tourist. You are in seeker mode. Identify the things that might inspire you and then go check them out.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 Mercury is in Scorpio. While there, your path goes down through a little crevice in the rock and into an underground cave. In this cave are all sorts of doorways of possibility. Each door requires that you peel off a layer of mask and be vulnerable to the winds of change.

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Libra 23.09/23.10 With Venus lingering in Scorpio, your journey from ideal to real takes on added intensity and urgency. Scorpio makes us aware that we are here for a limited time and that we’d best make use of it to find the most creativity, fun, love and wisdom we can. Take the gift.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11 There’s a lot going on in Scorpio and you don’t mind a bit.

Intensity is your environment of choice. You know full well that when there’s intensity, the nonsense gets sorted out from the smart creative bits. You integrity is more important than external social rules.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 With the sun in Sagittarius, directly opposite Jupiter in Gemini, you are face to face with all that is calling you to drop any dogma you carry that keeps you from being big, playful and as creative as you might be. Allow your limits to be confronted. Have the guts to grow.

Cancer 22.06/22.07 The moon begins her week in Cancer. She unleashes a flow of feeling that extends from the cosiness of family to the expansion of soul, via the Scorpionic journey of transformation and realness.

By putting your feelings on the table, the creative process really unfolds.

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Capricorn 22.12/19.01 Mars is passing by. He has moved across the path of Pluto.

In so doing, he has added fire and power to the process of deep change you are in. He unsticks that which has become stuck. He gives courage where you have become afraid. Go with this foundational shift.

Hunt I really enjoy attending the UniSA graduates exhibition every year, as first of all there’s cheese platters (for free!) and secondly these events allow you a three-floor glimpse into the next wave of leading visual artists.

The 2012 University Of South Australia’s Art, Architecture &

Design graduating exhibition is this year called Hunt, and will celebrate the work of over 100 graduating students in a myriad of disciplines such as glass, ceramics, sculpture, painting, photography, jewellery, drawing, printmaking and textiles.

This is a big event, and well worth a trot down so you can immerse yourself in all the ocular treats on display with a glass of wine. The

exhibition will run for 10 days, accompanied by a unique set of catalogues.

WHAT: Hunt: UniSA Graduates Exhibition WHERE: SASA Gallery, Kaurna Building, UniSA City West WHEN: Until Thu Dec 13 OPENING: Wed Dec 5 from 6pm – 9pm

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 Life is opening you up, right where you have been blocked.

Your initial feeling might not be liberation and gratitude. It might even feel like a sensitive bit has been bumped. It’s the little and big shocks that wake us up. Can you imagine being welcoming rather than resistant?

Pisces 19.02/20.03 The moon sets off an emotional flood early in the week. This brings down the dam walls and invites all rivers to flow. You need flow. It is your life blood.

Wherever there is stagnation there will now be oxygenation and liberation. Loosen up.

Dissolve all calcification.

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11 From St, Adelaide Woodland Whimsy Until Sat Dec 29

15 Peel St, Adelaide The Universe… Or Nothing Until Mon Dec 21

The woods and their occupants have long featured in literature, from Beatrix Potter to Brothers Grimm.

Mother and daughter Sue Garrard and Ellen Schlobohm have enjoyed these stories together since Ellen was a small child, and in this exhibition Woodland Whimsy they revisit these shared experiences. Ellen has created intricate, papercut works of woodland critters, whereas Sue has crafted jewellery made from recycled materials to complement the whimsical nature of the art.

Curated by Hannah Smith, The Universe… Or Nothing features the works of Dane Hirsinger, Nick Moss, Kate Power, Riley O’Keeffe and Hannah Smith tailoring to a theme of the alleged Mayan apocalypse on Fri Dec 21. Artists have been asked to respond to the idea of humanity escaping and finding salvation on another planet using a range of media including sound installation, video and projection. This will be, fittingly, Format’s final exhibition for 2012.

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costume designer, Jacqueline Durran. As always, we’ve included all the latest fashion, culture and lifestyle news and interviews with local creatives who do what they do so well. Oh, and be sure to snag yourself over $1200 worth of amazing products in our summer giveaway, because Santa can’t always get things right all the time.

Attitude Magazine is on the streets and online at attitudemagazine.com.au now.

Model: Adele Snowball (Pride)

The new edition of Rip It Up’s sister publication Attitude Magazine has hit the streets to help you get the most out of Adelaide’s fashion, lifestyle and culture this summer. Inside you’ll find a feature on local film project, One Eyed Girl, a feature on all the places to spend your summer days eating and shopping at Semaphore and Largs Bay and an insight into the work of Atonement and Anna Karenina

Photos by Andre Castellucci / Model: MJ (Finesse)

Attitude Magazine Summer Edition Out Now

Morning Theft Spring/Summer 2012/2013 Collection Just in time to stock up for the Sunday sessions and boozy lunches that will no doubt dominate the summer, Morning Theft releases their newest collection, May The Green In Your Eyes Say ‘Go’. Once again Morning Theft nail a collection that is as wearable and accessible as it is

unique. With a warm colour palette and a combination between loose and tailored, the combinations of shorts, blazers, Arabicinspired raglans and chinos ensure that the perfect balance of comfort and style is achieved for those semi-formal occasions.

The open toe Silent Sandal, available in

yellow, black and tan, secures this collection as one that dares men to branch outside into new ideas with fashion, without straying too far from their comfort zone.

Morning Theft is available from Das Hair & Fashion, Ebenezer Place and morningthefthomme.com.

Gilles Street Grand Bazaar The supersized Gilles Street Market saw a constant stream of bargain hunters and homemade food lovers peruse the stalls that spilled out onto Gilles St from the confines of the Gilles Street Primary School. With bands from the Jam Room, idyllic weather and more designers, vintage resellers and food stalls than Gilles Street Markets have seen before creating an atmosphere unrivalled for a long time, we would check off the Grand Bazaar as a huge success. Come back soon? Please?

Register your interest and be the first to preview Australia’s new online marketplace for pre-loved fashion

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Hysteria

Lost And Found

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Hopscotch / M / 95 Mins

Hopscotch / G / 24 Mins

Hopscotch / MA / 77 Mins

Based on fact, to an extent, director Tanya Wexler’s comedy uses raunchy humour as a means to study ugly truths. In Victorian London, Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), a young doctor with controversial ideas, starts work with the esteemed Dr Robert Dalrymple (formidable Jonathan Pryce), whose views about an epidemic of ‘hysteria’ among the town’s female population have led him to believe that the only cure is a regular treatment of intimate massage (or what might these days be crudely called ‘fingerbanging’), resulting in a large and devoted clientele. Dalrymple has two daughters, the drearily virtuous Emily (Felicity Jones) and the free-thinking, socially-minded Charlotte (cool American Maggie Gyllenhaal), and while Mortimer is steered towards the former, it, naturally, is the latter who concerns him, especially when she’s diagnosed with ‘hysteria’ by a misogynist medical fraternity and threatened with institutionalisation and even a lobotomy. And yes, as were many unfulfilled, unhappy women in those days if they dared criticise their husbands, make sexual demands or whatever, and so, therefore, isn’t it a relief that these are such enlightened times, and that we’ve all moved on and women are now taken so seriously by all?

Extras include featurettes and more.

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Oliver Jeffers’ popular children’s book is here turned into a UK-produced, computeranimated short that proves a beguiling and totally charming experience, right down to the subtly smiling narration by Jim Broadbent.

A small, beanie-wearing boy in an unnamed English coastal town awakens one morning not expecting this to be a most unusual day and, when a misplaced penguin rings the doorbell (?) and barges into his house, the lad doesn’t know what to do, and (as the elaborate character animation demonstrates) is actually initially displeased at this intrusion. However, this nameless kid’s a responsible sort and, after checking with the local ‘lost and found’ department and some sleuthing at the library, he hits upon the idea of rowing to the South Pole (and, helpfully, you can tell it’s the South Pole from quite a distance as it features a big, brightly-lit sign saying ‘Welcome To The South Pole’). Cleverly making a virtue out of the spare, simple nature of the best stories intended for the littlies, adaptor/ director Philip Hunt’s wry, sweet little tale also builds to an ending that (spoilers?) actually manages a pretty much perfect twist, and leaves you beaming. This release features an accompanying 29-minute Making-Of featurette.

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Director David Mackenzie’s romantic/ comedic docudrama, set in and semiimprovised around Scotland’s T In The Park music festival, features lots of rough acting, jiggly cameras and serious dirt, and yet it still works nicely. A posturing indie band sort named Adam (Luke Treadaway) meets agro riot-grrl muso Morello (Natalia Tena) and they immediately clash, leading to a security guard handcuffing them together and then disappearing into the crowd. This proves a major inconvenience, as both have important shows to perform and jealous exes nearby, and arguments arise as they drag each other through the crowds (not all of whom were properly instructed to not look at the camera) before, wouldn’t you know it, a mutual understanding and (here it comes) affection take effect, and they’re helping one another out onstage, knocking off rollicking versions of Tainted Love together, and more. And while there isn’t really anything here that you haven’t seen before, the gritty setting and Treadaway and Tena’s rowdy performances keep you watching, and the sequence where they roll in the mud together (a prerequisite at any music festival) and then enjoy a hot shower in half-torn-off clothes is one of the hottest sequences in any film in recent memory.

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Killing Time Killing Time follows the compelling life story of the infamous Australian lawyer, Andrew Fraser. At the top of his game, Fraser commanded a huge salary, but when his cocaine addiction spiralled into a thousanddollar-a-day habit, he lost everything. Caged among serial killers and psychopaths, Fraser is forced to reflect on where it all went so wrong. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of Killing Time on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Dec 13.

The Chaser – The Hamster Wheel: Volume 2

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The Chaser team returns to take a lawyerapproved look at the world of media, politics and censorship in The Hamster Wheel: Volume 2. And this time around they promise the gloves are off, which is odd because no one can recall them ever wearing gloves in previous seasons. We have five copies of The Hamster Wheel: Volume 2 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 13.

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Evil Knits: 20 Projects That Go Bump In The Night Hannah Simpson / Bloomsbury / 144pp / $19.99

There’s something decidedly odd about this how-to knitting guide (a genre of book reviewed all too rarely in these pages), as some might take objection to the idea that sweet little Sophie and dear little Jimmy want to snuggle up at night with woolly friends derived from their freaky parents’ fave horror pics. And yet knitting fans (some of whom are, you have to admit, pretty scary) could well enjoy devoting endless hours to creating: a Voodoo Doll Cat Toy; a Zombie Egg Cosy; an elaborate Monster Merry-Go-Round; rather cute Abominable Snowmen and Nosferatus; a Creature From The Black Lagoon Sleep Mask (!); a natty Necronomicon iPad Cosy (!); and their own little Ferdy (no, not a misspelling, as that’s how what is obviously meant to be Freddy Kruger is listed here, repeatedly and for possibly legal reasons - or perhaps due to an almighty editing error).

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Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?: And 130 Other Science Questions Answered Edited By Mick O’Hare / Profile / 225pp / $19.99

One of those nifty regular books from New Scientist (see also the reviewed-right-here Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Can’t Elephants Jump?), this, naturally, collects another fascinating series of questions asked by readers of their ‘Last Word’ column and then attempts to answer them, with help from either notable experts, authors, academics and know-alls or, eventually, O’Hare and his cronies. Consider: what language do people who have been deaf since birth think in? Does piped-in music in shops really stimulate you to buy stuff ? How can some fireworks explode in a square shape? How many times could you drink your own urine (not someone else’s!) before it became toxic? And, to tie in with the release of Skyfall, why the heck does James Bond prefer his martinis shaken, not stirred (other than it sounded cool in print and even cooler when Sean Connery said it)?

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Don’t Start Me Talking: Lyrics 1984 - 2012 Paul Kelly / Allen & Unwin / 389pp / $24.99

The second updated reprinting of this popular tome now begins with a listing of the lyrics of every song on Kelly’s Post (1985) and concludes with a similar rundown of 2012’s Spring And Fall, and again proves that he’s, without a doubt, Australia’s greatest ‘urban poet’ (if you really must use that rather cheesy term). Revel in: the words to Post’s much-misunderstood Adelaide; tracks from his biggest commercial success, Gossip (1986), including Before Too Long, Darling It Hurts, Leaps And Bounds and Somebody’s Forgetting Somebody (Somebody’s Letting Somebody Down); co-written tunes from the filmed One Night The Moon (2001), like the stirring This Land Is Mine; and Shane Warne, a Stolen Apples (2007) bonus ditty that tries to be like Kelly’s sweet old favourite Bradman but sadly fails as, well, it’s about bloody Shane Warne.

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Fourteen-time Grammy®-winning singer, songwriter and producer, Alicia Keys, has just released her highly anticipated fifth studio album, Girl On Fire, and thanks to Sony Music we have five copies up for grabs.

Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Dec 13.

Ke$ha Global superstar Ke$ha recently released her sophomore album Warrior, which features collaborations with the likes of Will.I.Am, Wayne Coyne, Iggy Pop and Ben Folds to name but a few. Thanks to Sony Music we’ve got five copies up for grabs, so log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win. Competition closes at midday on Thu Dec 13.

Your guide to the student experience.

It’s been brought to my attention that universities around the place are trying to limit the legislation surrounding student representation on decisionmaking councils. In particular the Flinders University Council are allegedly looking to change legislation where they would be able to remove all but one student and one staff member from the university council, meaning all others with a say would be external. That student may also become appointed and not elected. If it passes at Flinders, it’s possible that Adelaide Uni and UniSA will follow suit. It doesn’t take a politics student to realise this is widely undemocratic and terrible for ensuring that universities run with the opinions of those who are actually working and studying within the institution, having an impact on what decisions get made. If you’re a student – or a big fan of democracy – keep an eye on this one, as this decision would certainly affect you. Students help make more decisions at uni other than what theme they’ll have for their faculty’s pub crawl. I’m sure of it.

Remember, if you have any student info, upcoming event or deal students should know about, email me at lachlanaird@ ripitup.com.au, Poke facebook.com/ fasttimesripitupmag or Tweet @ FastTimesRIU and I’ll spread the word.

Peace, Lachie

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SAE Institute Open Day

Red Bull UniSA + Adelaide Uni As people graduate and drop off the tertiary education map, new opportunities open for fresh meat. If you’ve seen the Red Bull boys and girls refuelling weary students around campus and think it’s unfair you aren’t a part of it, now is your chance. UniSA and Adelaide Uni are in desperate need of a new Student Brand Manager for Red Bull, who will act as a micro-marketing manager for Red Bull at their campus of study. While this would be the perfect industry experience for someone studying marketing, events or media to make their resume glow with taurine-soaked radioactivity, but would also act as a great casual job for anyone gifted, creative and loves a party. Your job will involve creating Red Bull events for your campus and making sure the buzzy metallic tang of Red Bull never ceases for your campus’ parties and people. You’ll basically never sleep again.

And you won’t even have to base-jump from space to prove you’re worthy. They filled that job already.

To apply as a Red Bull UniSA or Adelaide Uni Student Brand Manager email anna. genders@au.redbull.com by Fri Dec 14.

Formerly known as the School Of Audio Engineering, the SAE Institute offers a definitive creative media college throughout Australia.

At the SAE Institute you can expect industryfocused courses in audio, live sound and electronic music production. There’s no need to fret over a lack of practical skills when you graduate, as their sources are specialised to make sure you have the skills, independence and confidence to launch yourself straight into working in the industry. To find out about the types of careers that the courses from the SAE Institute in Adelaide can offer you, head along to their open day. You can meet the lecturers, view the facilities and learn more about what opportunities are available in the challenging and ever-evolving field of professional audio.

Considering the amount of sound production used in professional music lately, you should have no problems finding work with these qualifications. Just try not to become a purveyor for synthetic, trashy Auto-Tune… We already have one Akon. No need for more. Really. One is plenty.

WHAT: The SAE Institute Adelaide Open Day WHERE: Unit 4, Level 2, 282 Gouger St WHEN: Sat Dec 9, 1pm-3.30pm CONTACT: 8215 7800, adelaide.sae.edu.au

Carclew Residencies Have a whole heap of art but nowhere to keep it? Or people to look at it? Carclew House needs new resident artists and a curator to look after their foyer gallery. This opportunity will give three local artists aged 18 to 26 a 12-month residency at Carclew from February 2013 until February 2014. This chance will allow two artists to have a free space to work in the Carclew studio, having access to industry support while expanding their professional networks. Artists of any discipline are welcome to apply. The foyer gallery curator for Carclew will be responsible for artwork selection, coordination and delivery of eight exhibitions for a year – perfect for an emerging arts worker who knows the ins and outs of the local contemporary

visual arts scene and wants to gain further experience in curating exhibitions. The foyer gallery curator position exists to profile the work of South Australia’s young emerging visual artists, and the successful applicant will have a mentor to guide them along the way. Whether you aim to be the brains behind Mona Lisa’s smile, or the one who decides whether or not it’s viable for public viewing, Carclew can offer you the opportunity to launch your career, and maybe even revolutionise the way we see the art world in the process?

Expressions of interest for the Carclew art studio and art curator residencies are due by Mon Jan 7. For more info visit carclew.com.au.

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Being in good company not only makes us happier people, but also can help us become more inspired. If inspiration is something you’re after, head along to the Adelaide Central School Of Art’s Level 3 and Level 4 Bachelor Of Visual Art Graduate Exhibition, In Good Company, to become completely befuddled with new ideas.

The students’ work display all the skills they have learned while studying but also their own distinct creative flavour, as each piece on the preview is completely unlike the other. While some opted for traditional materials, others opted for more

Bachelor Of Visual Art Graduate Exhibition – In Good Company modern approaches to art (teapots, bathtubs, digitally imaged film) to inspire some intriguing ideas. Perhaps you’ll be inspired to become an artist yourself and learn some new tricks at ACSA for next year?

WHAT: In Good Company, ACSA Bachelor Of Visual Art Graduate Exhibition WHERE: Adelaide Central Gallery, 45 Osmond Tce, Norwood WHEN: Sat Dec 1- Sat Dec 15 INFO: acsa.sa.edu.au/InGoodCompany.htm

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Listen Now:

Bend Beyond (Remote Control)

Deap Vally End Of The World (UMA)

A sweaty Karen O fronting The White Stripes? Three scoops, please. Raunchy without descending into the sex-puppet territory of Rihanna, dirty LA duo Deep Vally sound like Third Man Records after an oestrogen storm.

Upon hearing End Of The World, boys will be cutting their dicks off and trying to crash all-girl bands. Like Heart playing in an illegal gambling den in 1979, when guitarist Lindsey Troy sings ‘Open up our hearts and let love shine in’ she proves there’s more excitement in her ripped cut-offs than The Black Keys manage during a whole stadium tour. With a look and sound this ontrend, they’ll be signed up to Sonos, Ray-Ban and Pepsi campaigns by the end of the week.

Deap Vally, heavy muff.

Listen Later:

Wolf & Cub Salao (Independent)

Lana Del Rey Born To Die (Paradise Edition) (UMA)

Given the title references the cursed fisherman in Hemingway’s The Old Man And The Sea, it appears Adelaide’s salty seadogs Wolf & Cub are feeling similarly jinxed. Seven years ago they were signed to the lauded 4AD label and touring with international hit-makers Queens Of The Stone Age and The Killers, but since then they’ve shed half their original members, faded from view and had to watch the similarly psychedelic revisionists Tame Impala steal their gold. With guitar chords as thick and filthy as a mud eel, Salao swirls about like a lost ‘70s glam single produced by Can’s Holger Czukay. It’s a far more impressive track than this year’s comeback single See The Light and its absurd mimickry of Sniff ‘N’ The Tears’ 1979 hit Driver’s Seat, proving these desert sorcerors have a few more trippy hexes to cast yet.

Katie Whyte Where The Ocean Starts EP

And so we end 2012 as we began, with Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die delivering a warning that the pop bar has been raised.

This time last year Del Rey was still the hotly-tipped outsider, but the Paradise Edition of the 26-year-old’s debut arrives as chart-toppers such as Taylor Swift and Rihanna turn to Born To Die’s co-writers and producers for a much-needed new

twist.

With success having magnified Del Rey’s confidence in her imaginary realms, Paradise bristles with hyper-stylised power. It’s a Pinterest site featuring fallen idols, period fashions and quaint Kodachrome slides. It’s rose-tinted memories recalled through bloodshot eyes. It’s ornate black and purple Priscilla Presley frocks hiding bruises the same colour. It’s equal parts cunning femme fatale and naïve babydoll. It’s a sinister, fatalistic take on Americana that’s practically perfect.

Since Born To Die’s January release, Del Rey’s immaculately fabricated musical fantasy has become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. The additional Paradise disc sees Del Rey keeping a wedged heel in both the symphony hall and strip club across eight sulking new tunes. Like a doomed Virgin Suicides blonde, the more Del Rey sings of death, the more this beautiful creature sounds alive.

Like a ’57 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, Paradise takes the year’s finest ride to an even more scintillating level.

It’s a breathtaking five-star trip.

Scott McLennan

Back in the late-‘90s, I remember watching a mini-series on television simply called The ‘60s. Since it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia entry, I have to assume its influence on the pop culture pantheon has been minimal. What I do remember is that Julia Stiles and the fat kid from Stand By Me were in it, and that it followed a bunch of people living in 1960s America.

The film touched on all of the cliché subjects associated with that period of American history: the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, drug culture. I recall it being really depressing and sad.

Julia Stiles became a pregnant drug abuser due to her hippie lifestyle, and a bunch of other people died [insert a visual of a frowny face emoticon here, dear reader].

Bend Beyond, the seventh album in seven years by Brooklyn-based Woods, lets me romanticise about the ‘60s the way it was meant to be. It’s like a folky time machine that brings you back to sunny California circa the Summer Of Love. Bend Beyond makes me want to embrace everything: the tie-dye, the body hair down there, dashikis.

Did someone say ‘ludes and Wavy Gravy?

Groovy.

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Nicki Minaj & Tyga Live Review

Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Tue Nov 27 Review by Lachlan Aird Pics by Kristy DeLaine

(Independent)

From her choice of collaborators on her debut EP, it appears Sydney muso Katie Whyte is trying to tell us something. Where The Ocean Starts is engineered by Jim Moginie and cowritten and produced by Robert F Cranny - both veterans of Sarah Blasko’s ARIA Award winning album What The Sea Wants The Sea Will Have. Strong Glowing Lights has a wistful Karen Carpenter vibe and Ill At Ease floats scenically by, but there’s nothing magical enough here to turn fans from Blask to Whyte.

Will.I.Am & Britney Scream And Shout (UMA)

Will.I.Am you jive turkey, what the hell have you done to Britney’s voice? As if they weren’t already as thin and colourless as oatmeal wallpaper, the washed-up rabbit’s unrecognisable intonations on Scream And Shout now have all the personality of HAL-9000 cracking onto a TomTom. Robotically spiritless, this is only one step away from a Stephen Hawking mash-up collab: …Baby One More Brief History Of Time, anyone?

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For all her flaws, of which there are many, Nicki Minaj actually provides an important community service. Minaj’s Pink Friday: Reloaded tour showcases how the commercial music industry can taint a vivacious raw talent.

Sadly, few in the audience would pick up on that message, instead revelling in the playful debauchery and immorality that Minaj has come to represent. Even sadder still, those lapping up Minaj’s depravity are the most at risk, being young teenage girls.

Minaj’s efforts as a positive role model by encouraging the under 18s in the audience to stay in school and not give away their “cookies” is contradicted by her opening the show with Come On A Cone, since lyrics such as ‘put my dick in your face’ cancel out any good intentions. This is still regarded in higher taste than Minaj’s support act, Tyga, who preceded Minaj by bringing a handful of underage fans on stage to bump and grind along with him to Rack City, with the rest of the jealous crowd mouthing lyrics like ‘10, 10, 20s on ya titties bitch’ perfectly.

Moral rants aside, Minaj’s show struggled to decide exactly what it was. Minaj’s lightningfast raps on tracks like Roman Reloaded, Did It On Em and Beez In The Trap were impressive,

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Menomena

The Datsuns

Paul Kelly

Moms

Death Rattle Bootle

Spring And Fall

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I feel like this band has been around forever. I feel like someone has come up to me on more than one occasion and said something similar to: “Dude, if you like [insert band name here], you’ll love Menomena!”. I would always nod politely and enthusiastically proclaim that I would download one of their albums or, at the very least, consult Pitchfork. Of course, I never did any of these things, partly because I’m a lazy bastard, but primarily because most people have shitty taste in music.

After some Googling, I’ve discovered that Menomena released their first album in 2003, and Pitchfork has given all of their albums, including this one, high marks.

I have to admit, I was impressed - and bit angry with myself for being such a stubborn musical elitist.

When the album stopped spinning in my stereo I was no longer angry. Instead, I was elated that I had managed to avoid this band for a decade. Moms is like some modern psychedelic jam band got stoned, watched Tron and decided to write an album with computers. Lyrically, the band shoots for emotional depth, but never makes it out of the shallow end with lines like, ‘I’m evolving from a child, to an ageing child’. Who do these guys think they are?

Benjamin Button?!

Ryan Lynch

It is hard to believe that it’s been four years since New Zealand’s The Datsuns released their last record Headstunt - for most it would have been easy to assume that the rocking band had fallen off the face of the earth.

Nowadays, the group all live in different corners of the world - from Stockholm to London to Wellington to Auckland - so it’s no wonder it has taken so long to put together a new album.

The band picks up from where they left off, delivering another cracking album that blends their influences of psychedelic blues, rock and guitar pop. It all makes for the uniquely Datsuns sound, with awesome guitars and soaring vocals that’ll make fans get out the rock horns and say, ‘Fuck yeah!’.

Captured at the height of their powers, producer Nicke Andersson extracts every ounce of their being to deliver The Datsuns’ finest album to date. Gods Are Bored sums it up – it’s a bold reminder of how great they are. Tunes such as Shadow Looms Large and Fools Gold similarly reaffirm the obvious.

Death Of Me is an interesting closer as it sounds largely experimental, but Dolf De Borst’s vocals are sensational. Fingers crossed for a summer tour that includes Adelaide this time.

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The man, the legend, the guru of Australian sound is back, springing and falling and rising again with his latest release, Spring And Fall.

After a casual 18 albums, Paul Kelly this time brings a concept album to your cochleas with his exploration of love from all different angles and creating modern infusions of the Kelly we love most. Standing strong with minimal production tweaks of instruments and vocals - that iconic voice – Spring And Fall’s combinations form a really together sound. In true Paul Kelly style, some tracks were recorded in a country hall, stripping it back and showing listeners there is a joy in simplicity. Other songs were literally recorded in darkness after a blackout in the regional studio.

With Spring And Fall, Kelly is reintroducing the concept album, bringing back the practice of absorbing an album in its entirety. Each track is a part of something greater; a jigsaw where all of the pieces seem to fit perfectly. Kelly’s nephew Dan Kelly again gets a lookin, collaborating to double the sound, double the emotion and double the Kelly goodness.

Overall, it’s another wondrous result from the singer who looks like Carl Barron. Seriously - have a cheeky Google.

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with Minaj opting for a backing track to fill in the catchy choruses for the majority of the performance. It was a similar story on Minaj’s much-loved hits Super Bass, Pound The Alarm, Va Va Voom and encore Starships, which indicated Minaj’s preference for rapping over singing.

However, a surprise ballad set, where Minaj was joined by two incredibly talented back-up singers for powerful renditions of Fire Burns, Save Me and show highlight, Marilyn Monroe, proved that Minaj can – and should – sing more often. The stripped back (and ironically physically more covered up) Minaj was more engaging and less distracting than at other points in her set.

Overall, the joy of Minaj’s talent was dragged down by a whirlwind of tackiness. Poorlychoreographed back-up dancers, inferior set production, gaudy costuming, a rocket that looked more like a pink port-a-loo and a shitty inflatable pink Cadillac drew attention away from the busty rapper’s stage presence and talent.

The Pink Friday: Reloaded tour gave a clear synopsis of where Minaj came from, as an inventive and fierce New York rapper, and where she is headed, as a commercially viable antirole model. Hopefully, the former prevails, as her current enthral over young, impressionable audiences is dangerous, where her ferocity and sharpness is undeniably impressive. For someone who prides themselves on reimagining their identity, with any luck Minaj will emerge from this limbo as a more aware and appropriate artist for the audience she chooses to perform for.

Lisa Mitchell Bless This Mess (Warner)

The Oxford Dictionary defines the term Providence as ‘timely preparation for future eventualities’.

Lisa Mitchell’s Bless This Mess opener Providence can currently be heard soundtracking Hesta Super Fund commercials – is she preparing herself for a transition into the hearts of Australian pensioners?

In the wake of the 2009 success of Wonder, Bless This Mess finds Mitchell on a quest of self-discovery and spiritual purpose. The Alburyraised songwriter isn’t quite there yet, with the album lost in limbo between mumbled teen poetry and sparkling wisdom. Like the queasily cross-stitchy title suggests, she’s yet to completely eviscerate elements threatening to make her as schmaltzy as a macramé toilet roll doll. The title track is a highlight, but even that sounds like a Brambly Hedge version of Coldplay’s Clocks. The cute fables and dreamy mantras prove as fluffy and transient as a cumulonimbus.

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Dylan LeBlanc Cast The Same Old Shadow (Remote Control)

Cast The Same Old Shadow, the second record from Dylan LeBlanc, does exactly that. It is an album full of sorrow and self-pity, capitalised with country twang and an American drawl. LeBlanc does have an ear for melody, with most of the arrangements on Cast The Same Old Shadow capable of evoking a gut reaction from even the most hardened of listeners. The words LeBlanc pairs with those melodies are suspect, however, as he tends to lean on weak similes and a grab bag of clichéd sentiments of heartbreak and forgiveness.

At a mere 22 years of age, one can hardly fault LeBlanc for relying heavily on his influences. But with a perpetually woozy lap steel guitar and a rugged, boozy croon, Cast The Same Old Shadow is a familiar walk down the boulevarde of broken dreams.

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The Honey Pies Album Launch

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by Ryan Win

It wasn’t until the end of Rip It Up’s time with Mere Theory guitarist Nigel Black that he reflected upon the importance of maintaining his individual identity separate to his music. “Music is a part of you, but it isn’t all of you,” he explains.

“If you get too caught up in it, and too caught up in what people think of you and your music, then when it’s gone you don’t know who you are without your band, it’s incredibly difficult. I’ve seen it happen to close friends, and you have to be careful.

That’s why for me, even on this final tour, as excited as I am to be a part of it, I’ll still treat it like any normal day.”

It’s this statement that reveals the reason why the members of Mere Theory, after 12 years and a host of accolades and incredible opportunities, seem so happy as they prepare to walk away. For Black and the other members, the creative outlet which the band had provided them was coming to the end of its life. It was with little trepidation that Black and singer Chris Mellow shared this feeling with one another at the beginning of 2012, before the band collectively made the decision that other projects would be

placed on hold to give Mere Theory one final send-off. And it’s now with genuine excitement, as opposed to a heavy heart, that the four current members tour one last time around the country to thank everyone who has supported them along the way, before moving on.

“It’s seems better to end it now with some momentum still going than waiting for everything to fall flat,” Black says.

“For myself personally, I decided not to continue songwriting for this band after the last album was released. I was still writing music, but didn’t feel that the songs matched what Mere Theory was doing. We’re of the opinion that to end on a high note with a smile and enjoyment, rather than feeling ourselves run out of gas or calling a hiatus that ends up indefinite, is the right way to go. You know, all of the band members will be continuing with other projects and we’ll continue to create new music, and in different ways with one another still. What these projects are going to be we’re still working out, and that’s a lot of fun to do.”

Confirming that there will be no reunion show after their final date at the Uni Bar this month, Black was pleased to share that all the ex-members of Mere Theory will be joining the present line-up on stage for the show. He

also acknowledged just how much of a role being a part of the band has played in shaping his life up to now, as a project that formed originally towards the end of his teens.

“I always think of the people who’ve been involved – ex band members, people we’ve toured with, guys like Alexisonfire and Millencolin, close friends, Bodyjar, After The Fall, Gyroscope and other incredibly talented people who we’ve had the chance to interact with. They’re all just good guys or girls, just people. And visiting the towns, we’ve done so many laps of the country which I think in any other context would be very hard to do. It’s been a special experience.

“Whatever future projects we do, we might not be able to tour like we have, or get the same opportunities. But it’s relieving and exciting to take a new step and to be able to grow. I could keep doing MT for a long time and we’ve already done so much growing in this band, it’s now time to step forward again.”

It feels like only months ago that the gents from The Honey Pies put out new tunes, but lucky for us they’re soon to unleash a whole new batch of songs on Fri Dec 14 for their album launch at Jive. They’ll be joined on the night by Fake Tan and The Bon Scotts, and the music kicks off around 8pm. You can listen to the lead single Coconuts and pre-order tickets from thehoneypies.com.

Max Savage, Hurricanes & Transatlantics Local country blues singer Max Savage is bringing his unique and explosive live show to Adelaide for one night only at the Wheatsheaf Hotel this Sat Dec 6. He will reunited with his band The False Idols on the night alongside Hurricanes and The Transatlantics. The bands start at 7.30pm and tickets are $15 from the door.

WHO: Mere Theory, After The Fall, Before The Aftermath & Move To Strike WHERE: Adelaide Uni Bar WHEN: Sat Dec 8 from 8pm

CD Review

Thursdays Friend Dinobabeasaur (Independent)

If you like your music vocalised by someone who has been stabbed in the throat and is gurgling on the final gasps of a lusty jugular, then this little EP by Thursdays Friend is right up your alley.

Similarly, if dinosaur/beach-bunny hybrids are your kind o’ thang, then get on board.

Thursday’s Friend are starting to make their name around the live scene for their

groaning post-punk style. What works well live doesn’t translate perfectly to the recordings; the unintelligible lyrics are too prominent, droning out of tune over heavy, whining guitars. Liar and Nothing Inside You are the strongest on the EP, but an appearance from the Dinobabeasaur would have gone down a treat.

Not quite a rager, but certainly cranky.

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