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Man, what a year. You, reader, have been strapped in with us all through 2012 - you’ve read news stories from the rise of Lana Del Rey to the fall of Heatwave Festival. You’ve heard incredible festival announcements, watched videos of stages collapsing and Azealia Banks riding dolphins and probably commented on a few controversial articles. You’ve seen the emergence of our brand new website and flipbook and adjusted with our new digital look. Now it’s time to reflect, look back and put all the highlights and lowlights of the musical year into our favourite thing – a list. Check out the brand new Rip It Up website for our top music videos, music news, albums and singles for the year, and don’t forget to add your two cents… Thanks for sticking it out with us this year guys, we promise 2013 for Rip It Up’s digital presence will be bigger, and better, than ever.

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See the Melbourne-based supergroup for trainspotters when they launch their Double Natural album at Grote St’s Hotel Metro on Fri Dec 14.

Heading over from Melbourne to help Adelaide’s The Honey Pies launch their latest offering at Jive on Fri Dec 14 with Fake Tan also on the bill.

Bringing his new project, Buffalo Tales, to Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel on Sat Dec 15 to launch debut EP Blood And Bone with Laura Hill as special guest.

Taking place as a free entry event from noon until 10pm in Leigh St, Adelaide, with entertainment from The Bakers Digest (pictured), Lucky Seven, The Killgirls and more along with food and craft stalls.

Flying down from Brisbane town into Jive on Thu Dec 13 with Animaux, Sailer Gerald and Sno Drop DJs to launch their Fortunes EP.

Coming over from Perth with a new line-up and brand new songs and playing a free entry Crown & Anchor gig on Sat Dec 15 with Last Days Of Kali.

Speeding along this week... HARD-ONS – catch the legendary Aussie punks at Enigma Bar with Guantanamo Bay City Rollers on Sat Dec 15.

LOREN – see the rootsy singer when he plays the Grace Emily on Thu Apr 13 with his singing sister Freya Hanley.

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JON STEVENS – witness him carolling, along with Humphrey B Bear, at the free entry Carols By Candlelight at Elder Pk on Sun Dec 16.

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Who: The New Mendicants / Where: Thu Feb 7 / Where: The Grace Emily / Tickets: oztix.com.au

Talented Beggars A couple of bona fide indie heroes come to the Grace Emily on Thu Feb 7 - Glasgow-born Norman Blake and Massachusetts local Joe Pernice. Between them the pair founded Teenage Fanclub, Scud Mountain Boys, BMX Bandits and Pernice Brothers and later found themselves

new neighbours in Canada. What else were they to do but begin a low-key collaboration in a Toronto tavern? With performances marked by plenty of banter, open tunings and sublime pop smarts, these days they call themselves The New Mendicants. Don’t miss them.

Who: Presidents Of The United States Of America / Where: HQ / When: Thu Mar 14 / Tickets: oztix.com.au

Step Aside, Obama

Back in the early ‘90s, who knew that a couple of childhood friends from Seattle would earn a cult following, an MTV hit and a top 10 album with the help of a twostring basitar and a three-string guitbass? Presidents Of The United States Of America took the world by storm with their modified

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electric guitars, self-titled debut album and its singles Lump, Kitty and Peaches. They’ve toured Australia a bunch of times since that early success and now return to play their debut album in its entirety along with all of their greatest hits. Get ready to eat a lot of peaches.

Half-Made Big Bad Blues Man Bluesfest just got bigger. No, really. If you thought the line-up featuring Iggy & The Stooges, Santana, Ben Harper, Status Quo, Chris Isaak and Wilco was huge, then get ready for this: Counting Crows, The Lumineers, Taj Mahal, Shuggie Otis, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Ben Howard, Tav Falco & The Panther Burns, JD McPherson and more just got added. Get into it over the Easter weekend in Byron Bay from Thu Mar 28 to Mon Apr 1. Details: bluesfest.com.au.

Palmer Postponed In sad news, Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra have postponed their tour that was to come to Thebarton Theatre on Sun Feb 17. Palmer is staying in Boston with her best friend Anthony, who has cancer and is now in treatment with an uncertain outcome. All tickets purchased will be valid for new shows to be announced; refunds are available at point of purchase.

If you thought the cello was just for the string quartet, Ben Sollee will make you think again. Sollee plays a unique mix of folk, bluegrass, jazz and R&B on his cello, matched with smoky vocal stylings and intricate arrangements that have drawn comparisons to Sufjan Stevens. He’ll play his fourth album Half-Made Man with percussionist Jordan Ellis at Sessions at the Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre on Wed Jan 16.

Sticky Situations Ouch. All four Sticky Fingers members experienced break-ups in the past year. The huge success of their single Caress Your Soul might have soothed their troubled hearts somewhat, but they’re still plumbing the break-up song thing with their latest single Clouds And Cream. Sticky Fingers aren’t afraid to air their dirty laundry, so they’re taking what they’re calling “psychotic, surf, dub, love songs” out on the road, hitting the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri Jan 11. Tickets: thegov.com.au.

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Wings Birdy only just left Australia – and had such a good time meeting echidnas, eating Vegemite and buying toys for her dog that she’s already making plans to return. The English teenager’s self-titled debut album hit the number one spot on the ARIA chart, driven by her rendition of Bon Iver’s Skinny Love and her single People Help The People. Hear it at Thebarton Theatre on Wed Apr 10.

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DEC 14

When Forever Comes Crashing After playing metal and hardcore for more than 21 years, Converge are celebrated for creating a sound entirely their own. From their 2001 landmark album Jane Doe to their latest effort All We Love We Leave Behind, they’ve maintained an uncompromising artistic vision. See them at Fowler’s with guests Old Man Gloom on Wed Feb 13. Tickets: moshtix.com.au.

What: Hits & Pits / Where: HQ / When: Thu Mar 28

Mad World

Mad Caddies recently shot a little video of themselves drinking beers and spending more time outdoors to re-accustom themselves with the Australian way of life. The video also shows the band driving some

Bubble Yum Here’s an Australia Day plan that will pop your sausage. San Francisco-based performer Hunx, AKA Seth Bogart, fronts Hunx & His Punx, the first ever ‘girl group’ fronted by a flamboyant gay male whose dream in

kind of golf cart while holding a hairdresser’s dog, but we can let that slide. They are the seminal ‘90s ska punk band after all. They’re playing the Hits & Pits touring mini-festival with Good Riddance, A Wilhelm Scream, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Flatliners, Diesel Boy (acoustic), One Dollar Short (acoustic), Jamie Hay, Jen Buxton, Totally Unicorn and Paper Arms.

life is to sound like a girl. Hunx formed the group after years of dancing in queer-centered electro outfit Gravy Train! and now serves up generous helpings of ‘60s girl group and bubblegum pop with all the hallmarks of the Bay Area garage rock scene that Hunx emerged from. Pitchfork says it’s “deliciously trashy homoerotic pop” – don’t miss it at the Metro on Sat Jan 26.

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Burn Birdy Burn This year has been all about change and renewal for Birds Of Tokyo. They added two new members in Glenn Sarangapany on keys and Ian Berney on bass; the three original members, Ian Kenny, Adam Spark and Adam Weston left their Perth hometown to live along the eastern seaboard; and they reinvented their approach to songwriting with a new Sydney studio space and spent time together in a remote French farmhouse. After all that they went to Los Angeles to record with a new producer and mixer. “We really made a conscious choice to just put a match to everything we’d done before so that we could create something that felt fresh and exciting for us,” Spark says. “Hopefully people who like the band will feel the same way when they hear it.” After burning everything down and starting again, Birds Of Tokyo have a new album called March Fires and a tour that comes to HQ on Tue Mar 5. Tickets: moshtix.com.au, venuetix.com.au and oztix.com.au.

Boner Jams The Beards have some buddies coming over from Melbourne - but they don’t sing about facial hair. Jason Leigh and Adam Stagg dress up in sailor uniforms, caps and pull their socks high to sing songs about erections. They’re The Stiffys and they formed last year for a one-night-only performance at a magazine launch party. Rising to the occasion, they’ve kept playing shows, recorded a debut 13-minute album in one take and released a single, Call And Response Song, that showcases their fondness for cheap champagne and dislike for cymbals. It’s tambourines and cooking pots ahoy on Fri Dec 21 at the Crown & Anchor with The Baskervilles and Sat Dec 22 at the Jetty Bar with The Baron and Cherry Grind.

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Magic Bones Melbourne’s Magic Bones have been described as a gift that keeps on giving, something like a pass-the-parcel straight out of the ‘60s. They play a rock‘n’roll melting pot of ‘60s garage, ‘70s psychedelia and ‘80s punk and have now gone a bit surf rock with Once You Forget. See them at the Metro on Sat Dec 22 with Horror My Friend.

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Girls Of Summer It’s true: drinking to excess really does make you rich and famous. The temperance movement might shake their heads in despair, but for Icona Pop’s Aino Jawo, a hedonistic night of inebriation has led to a healthier bank account, international travel and exciting musical collaborations.

n between downing large amounts of whiskey and beer on a Saturday night in February 2009, Jawo crossed paths with future best friend Caroline Hjelt. The pair clicked immediately. Just hours after meeting, the duo were dancing in a Stockholm nightclub and plotting their next move. “We went to a club that usually only plays dubstep music but that night there was another DJ and he was playing songs like Robin S’ Show Me Love and Hot Chip’s Over And Over and Swedish power pop. I remember calling Caroline the day after and saying, ‘Hey! We should really write something!’ – and we did it! “The first song was written the day after,” she continues. “We didn’t go to work, we called in sick. We felt that we had something very special that we had to show to people. Our mutual friends were laughing at us – ‘What are you doing! It’s not that simple to start a band!’ – but we were like, ’Yes it is! If you feel it’s right you should just go for it!’” Signed to esteemed boutique label Kitsune in 2010, the duo’s notoriety as DJs and producers grew exponentially on the release of debut single Manners. Management swiftly

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booked Icona Pop for a US appearance, but Jawo’s severe fear of flying looked set to derail the act’s rising status. For the second time in their short career, a massive night out changed everything. “I was afraid of flying for the two months before we went to New York,” Jawo admits. “I was calling everyone really upset saying, ‘I just wanted to call you to say that if I die, I really loved you’. I was panicked, but the night before we left we went out dancing with all our luggage! I got really drunk and fell asleep as soon as we got on the plane. I woke up and suddenly felt really relaxed. I don’t know what happened, but up until then I think I had always made it worse than it actually was. I would still rather have my feet on the ground than in a little tin up in the air, though.”

“It’s been a dream, but now we start the new year in Australia. We will party like vikings, yes?” There’s now rarely a day for Jawo and Hjelt that doesn’t involve notching up another clutch of frequent flyer miles. After a US tour with Marina & The Diamonds wraps up in Texas this month, the fashionable pair head to Australia as one of the most exciting new talents on the Summadayze bill. With their single I Love It recently cracking the top 20 and their Chiddy Bang collaboration Mind Your Manners saturating the airwaves, the pair arrive Down Under as hot property. Until a short while ago, the duo were completely unaware the bratty pop fun of I

Love It was creating waves in Australia. “We just heard we came into the top 20 over there and we were so excited. We released it in Sweden and then it started to spread around the world. We didn’t even know it was picked up in Australia and then someone told us, ‘Yeah – you should really go over there because they’re playing your song so much’. We were like, ‘Australia? What!?’” Unlike the rest of the tracks on Icona Pop’s recently released Iconic EP, I Don’t Care is ostensibly a cover of a Charli XCX song. Jawo says Icona Pop were exposed to the rising UK star’s demo of the song while recording Iconic tracks. “We were finishing off a different song, Good For You, and one of our main producers showed us this really weird little rock version of Charli XCX singing I Love It over a cute beat. Because we were also going through a lot of dramas in our lives we really took to this song. We’d met her a couple of times so we called her and asked if we could use the song, which she was really happy about. We got together with Charli and our [producer] friends Linus Eklow and Patrik Berger and made a really lovely production with the shouty choir. It was very natural and Charli’s been very pleased about it. It’s kind of weird as we’re usually involved in writing the songs ourself, but it almost feels like we wrote it!” The euphoric delivery of the devil-maycare chorus - ‘I crashed my car into the bridge. I don’t care! I love it!’ - indicates Icona Pop might not be the best drivers. Perhaps the song would work well in a Volvo commercial. “Yes, you can crash into a bridge and still make a hit song!” Jawo laughs. “I’m going to go to Volvo tomorrow and tell them they can use it. Don’t tell this to anyone but even though neither of us can [legally] drive, Caroline’s been driving a lot in Sweden! We’ve had no accidents yet, though.” With a debut album due in 2013, Icona Pop look set to follow in the Swedish

Infinite Sadness Icona Pop’s Aino Jawo suggests the duo follow in the Swedish tradition of ABBA, Robyn and Lykke Li by hiding sadness behind upbeat melodies. ”Most of our songs are a little bit deeper than you think - there’s bittersweet disguised by a cute melody. There’s something about the whole of Sweden that feels bittersweet in a way. There’s something about Sweden that makes everything bittersweet. Maybe it’s the weather?”

footsteps of The Knife and Robyn in terms of creating deft electro pop while also delivering memorable live shows. Jawo buzzes with enthusiasm as she reveals plans for an elaborate Icona Pop stage set-up. “Caroline and I are trying to build a spaceship when we play live. A spaceship between us with a lot of electronic gear – this big mother spaceship. I would also like to do an entrance where I come in flying through the air - something like Michael Jackson would do. We have massive plans – we want to buy a lot of new equipment so that we can make stranger and cooler versions of every song we have.” For now though, Jawo’s mind is on Australia… And drinking. “We can’t wait to come to Australia – it’s going to be awesome. We are just so excited, you don’t understand! It’s been a dream, but now we start the new year in Australia. We will party like vikings, yes?” WHO: Icona Pop WHAT: Iconic EP (Warner) WHERE: Summadayze, Rymill Pk WHEN: Mon Dec 31

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Bunny Boilers

Initially given widespread exposure after winning the inaugural Triple J Unearthed competition in 1995, Lismore’s Grinspoon have returned with album number seven, Black Rabbits. It’s another rocking affair, but guitarist Pat Davern is unsure whether the process gets easier or harder with each new release.

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When it comes to making the album, I don’t know,” he suggests. “I think it’s one of those things where sometimes you just have a better batch of songs - that’s the way it works with us. We really enjoyed making this record and time was really on our side, as we weren’t in a hurry to make it happen. We released [sixth album] Six To Midnight in 2009 and basically toured on that for two years, going overseas twice and a bunch of touring around Australia. There was a long sell for that record and we had a bit of time off once all that had finished. Phil [ Jamieson, frontman] and I got together in July last year in a studio in Port Macquarie with the gear from my house and we sat down and wrote eight songs together. A couple of those ended up on the record, with Passerby and Branded coming out as a result of that process. Looking back, we were off to a good start and we kept the ball rolling from then on, having a few breaks in there. It took 12 months to get to a point where we could look at getting a producer to record the album.” Black Rabbits was produced by LA’s Dave Schiffman, who has previously worked on releases by Weezer, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. So how does Davern compare Black Rabbits to Grinspoon’s last couple of albums? “The band definitely does feel like it’s continuing to evolve. I think this album is a lot more melodic and more focused on the major melodies, more

poppy in places. Six To Midnight was really live, quite heavy and dark and we wanted that one to be sounding really live to really catch what we were doing. This time we spent a lot less time in preproduction and more time in the writing process. By the time we got to the studio we really knew what we were doing and could piece the album together song by song. It was a really enjoyable experience and definitely a much better sounding record than what we’ve ever done, I think. The songs are stronger than on our last couple of outings.” When you say it’s poppier, what inspired that sort of change? “I don’t think there was ever any grand design. I’ve been asked this a lot by people who have listened to the record and say it does sound like that. Basically, it was trying not to cover the same ground. When we made Six To Midnight we made the mistake of going, ‘This is the formula that has worked for us in the past, just do it again’. I don’t think that necessarily worked for us and to keep ourselves interested we needed to evolve a little bit and really like it. It is always good to try something new which is what we’ve tried to do.” Have Grinspoon mellowed? “I don’t know, I think we’re still playing heavy rock! There are definitely some hard rock moments on this outing but I think the approach we’ve taken to writing songs has matured and I don’t think that’s a dirty word. Maybe it is if you’re a feisty rock band. The band were united on this one - everyone liked the songs and everyone agreed on the direction we were taking. Sometimes making an album with this band can be like pulling teeth, but it was a simple process as everyone was on the same page.” WHO: Grinspoon WHAT: Black Rabbits (UMA) WHERE & WHEN: Big Day Out, Adelaide Showground on Fri Jan 25 and the Governor Hindmarsh on Thu Mar 21

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Band Of Brothers Frontman Phil Jamieson has battled drug addiction and a habit of running his mouth off (see his spat with Eskimo Joe this week), but Grinspoon have stuck together despite the ups and downs. Pat Davern says the trick is knowing when to keep your distance. “For starters you’ve got to get along with the people in the band and be able to do

things outside of the band - plus we don’t really socialise with each other. When we come together it is always really fun, but we’re not trying to be each other’s best friends. We enjoy playing music together and enjoy being around each other, but when we’re not being Grinspoon we all live separate lives. People might think it’s a little strange we rarely talk on the phone but that really works for us and we treat each other like brothers.”

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Felonious Monk While recently joining The Beards for various dates on their tour, Sydney band Gay Paris were also preparing for their second album, The Last Good Party, by appealing to their devotees. Vocalist Wailin’ H Monks promises Rip It Up great new tunes and some up close and personal time.

he band’s Pozible campaign, which requested $6000 to record second album The Last Good Party in exchange for tunes and the odd stunt, proved incredibly popular. “I don’t think it was unreasonable, and if you strip all the cowbells and whistles off the whole goddamn process, it’s the easiest way to pre-order the album,” Monks says. “I don’t care if you get it and then put it on Pirate Bay or something, because we’re not at

a level where we can make a living out of this; we just want [to be able to make it] and have people hear the goddamn stuff. We wanna make it and we want it to be good quality, and without everyone helping... we [really] didn’t think they would.” The band initially kept their expectations low, but the public response to their request was impressive. The target was quickly reached. “At first we thought, ‘We’re not going to hit $6000, maybe we should ask for a bit less’, but then the money just poured in very, very quickly. And once again, it was like we said, ‘Would you like some of this high octane, high-quality rock’n’roll with all the fine lyrics and beats that you so sorely desire?’ or ‘Would you like us to debase ourselves, because we will also do that for you, whatever you want’. And you know, I guess it says more about the character of the Gay Parisian fan-base, but I’m just looking forward to seeing Slim [Pickins, bass] breakdancing in a one-piece in the Pitt Street Mall.” Indeed, having a bass player humiliate himself in public, in Lycra, is just one of the warm and

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Rock N Roll Swindle Musicians will do anything for your dollars. Here are three diverse crowdsourcing scams offers. Eskimo Joe – Summer barbecue for 20, with Eskimo Joe providing meat and salad options, plus some acoustic renditions after the flamegrilled feast. ($6000) Amanda Palmer – Four to five hours with Amanda Palmer including dinner and art-sitting, where Palmer will paint the purchaser’s portrait, plus ukulele performance and additional signed books and CDs. ($10,000) Josh Freese – Mini-golf with Freese and Maynard James Keenan; pizza party with Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh; hanging out with Slash, Tool and A Perfect Circle; a night on California’s Queen Mary; song written in honour of purchaser and more. ($20,000)

fuzzy added extras to be had via Gay Paris’ Pozible campaign (the kind soul who purchased that option gave $102). In addition to providing music, Gay Paris have offered quite a bit of themselves in exchange for cash, including weird and wonderful musical (and not) rewards. Among the perks is a personalised birthday wish for several years in the row; having Ol’ Blacktooth [Marks, guitars] re-enact any film (or trailer) in 10 minutes using only cutlery from the kitchen; and this writer’s favourite, having Slim and WH re-enact ‘The Fake Orgasm’ scene from When Harry Met Sally in a Maccas and sending you the catastrophe on film. While the offering of exclusive swag is now the custom for crowd-sourcing projects, few are quite as direct (and funny) as this Sydney four-piece. Their Pozible promo video shows a rags to riches story, which sees them doing the full hobos to heroes experience (as well as seeing Monks dressed as a hooker, threatening to turn a nasty trick), which serves to get right to the heart of the matter while taking the piss. Monks says making music costs money – not an outrageous amount, but more than the standard door price or crappy rider of warm VB. “We had some money, so we could either write the record or tour the record or record it, but we couldn’t do all three. And we thought, ‘This is what the people need. They have heard enough of the last album, they want to hear some new outrageous stories.’ I don’t know if we’d do it again, because I think if you ask for too much too often people might get a bit pissy and you might have to answer for yourself in a way we’re not prepared to.” Monks is excited for fans to hear the results. “I think overall this album is more cohesive, and I don’t want to be the band guy who says, ‘This album shows how much more mature we are’, but I think it is more cohesive and it’s more about being stripped back. It’s not just about hanging out on the lounge watching Fear And Loathing... with the sound turned off.” WHO: Gay Paris WHERE: Jive WHEN: Sat Dec 15

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Interviews// Mike Check Forever busy as frontman for one of punk’s most notorious groups, Suicidal Tendencies’ Mike Muir has just stepped out of the studio in his home in California. Although the 49-year-old considers our great brown land his second home, it’s apparent Suicidal Tendencies are far more productive while he’s on the other side of the Pacific.

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I love being in Australia but it’s a hard place to commute from,” he admits. “There’s no real red eye [flight] for most situations. So after a while [my family] said, ‘Let’s just go back for a bit and see what happens,’ and everything has gone really well – it’s much easier to be here. But my wife and my eight-year-old – they’ll always be Australian, so it’s an important place. It was the first place that I ever went

touring and I said, ‘Wow, I could live here’. That was a long time ago when I first went there, in ’93, but I’ve always felt comfortable, and the one similarity is that everybody skated or surfed – that’s what you did. So to me, it’s not like living in a different country.” Muir and his blue bandana-wearing brigade are putting down more tracks for an as-yet untitled record that will mark their first original LP since 2000’s Free Your Soul And Save My Mind. Whether the sounds are angled towards their bruising early‘80s hardcore, the thrash metal found later that decade or the heavy-ended funk that has peppered Suicidal’s music as a whole is anyone’s guess. The formidable main man seems equally as ambivalent, refusing to nominate a certain path to follow, much like he’s done through the life of Suicidal Tendencies. “We did our first record [1983’s Suicidal Tendencies] and the punk fanzines said it sucked, it was metal, and then four years later they said, ‘Oh, they did a punk rock classic but now they’ve gone metal’. And it was like, ‘Wait a second, you said it sucked

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Life And How To Live It Suicidal Tendencies’ Mike Muir offers some words of wisdom. “My dad goes, ‘Y’know what? Don’t worry about other people, just worry about yourself.’ If someone says you’re an arsehole, it doesn’t make you an arsehole. If someone says you’re God, it doesn’t make you a god. But what you do, how you live your life, your actions, that’s what you should be worried about; not what someone else says and that type of thing.”

before this!’ Everyone is always telling you that you can’t do this or that. We did thrash, but there wasn’t that term before we did Join The Army – that came out afterwards. We’re one of the few bands that can do all these different things and we throw ourselves into a lot of situations, which is important so that music doesn’t become unimportant. “When you do the same thing over and over and over, it’s monotonous. You can have a favourite food and a favourite restaurant, but if you eat there three times a day for a couple of months you’re not going to enjoy it anymore. I think music should be a challenge – it shouldn’t be the stop-off at the candy store, y’know?” If you’re at all familiar with the Suicidal family, it’s no surprise to find that if you give Muir a conversational inch he’ll run with it a mile. And so he continues matter-of-factly… “I love a lot of music but I hate even more. And I’m a little bit different to a lot of people in the sense that most people make music that they want others to like and that they hope they like, but I’m not really concerned if people like it or not. Next year will be the 30th anniversary of our first record, and the punk fanzines back then said it sucked, and the metal ones said it sucked – but I didn’t really care. That stuff doesn’t really matter, like if someone writes something it doesn’t really matter. “Going back to the beginning, we’ve got a record that’s almost 30 years old now. I’d rather have a record that 30 years later people are listening to but they talked shit about when it came out, than have a record that when it comes out everybody is singing along, then in four bars it’s a new slice of toast, y’know?” But will the new album kick arse? Muir won’t be drawn on what to expect. “I’m not a car salesman and I never would be, but to sit here and go, ‘Our new record is going to be great’, well, you know what? I know a lot of people won’t like it. And even people I know, friends and stuff, we’ll finish a record and they’ll say to me, ‘I don’t like it’ and then years later they’ll say, ‘Dude, that’s my favourite record’. And I think that’s the biggest compliment you can have.” WHO: Suicidal Tendencies WHERE: HQ (with Unwritten Law) WHEN: Sun Dec 16

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UK band The Waterboys, who took their name from a line in the Lou Reed song The Kids and are famous for such songs as The Whole Of The Moon and Fisherman’s Blues, formed in the early ’80s but will tour Australia for the very first time early next year.

he constantly evolving band is led by Edinburgh-born singer songwriter Mike Scott, who says that an invitation to play their new album, An Appointment With Mr Yeats, in its entirety at next year’s Sydney Festival has led to the Australian tour. “That has certainly helped grease the wheels to get me there,” he begins. “Mr Yeats was actually a show before it became an album. It began life as a show that’s longer than the album – the album is just a distillation of the full show which we’ll be doing at the Sydney Festival.

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“But for the other shows in Australia, it’ll only be some of the Mr Yeats material along with lots of Waterboys songs,” Scott adds. An Appointment With Mr Yeats features poems of Ireland’s WB Yeats set to music as Scott has done in the past with the poems The Stolen Child (from Fisherman’s Blues) and Down By The Sally Gardens (from the re-issue of The Waterboys’ 1990 album Room To Roam). “I was attracted to Yeats’ poetry when I was just a teenager,” Scott says. “ I used to grab his stuff off my mother’s bookshelf and I really liked the way he used language because his poems seemed very weighty, very sculpted and very deliberate and yet they roll off the tongue very lightly. There’s something very elegant about that.” The first three albums by The Waterboys (a self-titled affair in 1983, A Pagan Place in ’84 and This Is The Sea in ’85) might have suggested that they were on their way to emulating the stadium rock of U2, but the group took a left turn into folk roots territory with the release of Fisherman’s Blues and Room To Roam in ’88 and ‘90 respectively. “Oh, I think the first three albums were also quite rootsy,” Scott immediately counters. “I

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Fisherman’s Box About 100 songs were recorded for consideration for The Waterboys’ Fisherman’s Blues, with some leftovers popping up on the 2006 reissue. Colin Meloy, singer with US band The Decemberists, jokingly suggested as part of a recent question and answer feature with Mike Scott in UK music journal Uncut that the remainder be released as a box set called Fisherman’s Box. “Colin – and God bless the lovely chap – has now got his wish because they are coming out next year as a 7CD set called Fisherman’s Box,” Scott says. “EMI in London own the recordings but I still have a very good relationship with them – we’ve put out the other Waterboys re-issues together – and I suggested it to them and they agreed.

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was using lots of acoustic guitar on those albums and I think the DNA of Fisherman’s Blues – the direction we went with that and the seat of that – was definitely in those first three records. “But it was when [still current member] Steve Wickham joined The Waterboys with his fiddle that it opened up a lot of musical doors for me,” he considers. “When Steve played fiddle and I played acoustic guitar, suddenly we could play country music, gospel, blues and folk music. So playing with Steve and recording Fisherman’s Blues [in Spiddal on the far west coast of Ireland] was a very wonderful time.” Scott recently authored Adventures Of A Waterboy to document the band’s life so far. “It was an incredibly absorbing process,” he says. “I dedicated myself to it because I was getting up at 5.30 every morning and writing for four hours. It was after The Waterboys had toured America and Europe in 2007 and we’d gone off the road for a year and I thought, ‘Now’s my chance if I’m ever going to write a book’. “And I’d always wanted to write a book because I love writing prose as much as I like writing song lyrics. And I had such a wonderful time on the west coast of Ireland during that time of Fisherman’s Blues and Room To Roam that I felt there was a real story to tell. “I guess there will be certain expectations because we haven’t played down in Australia before,” Scott then says when asked again about The Waterboys’ upcoming tour. “The Waterboys is primarily a live band and we intend to strip the paint off the walls of all the theatres we play in and play all the songs we are known for,” he concludes.

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The Presets The Presets cometh! They haven’t headlined around the nation since 2009, but this year’s Parklife Festival must have stirred some jolly nostalgia in their musical hearts, and Kim Moyes and Julian Hamilton have announced a string of home dates next year. The tour will focus on Pacifica tracks, but also promises “bold, exciting and infectious reworkings” of Beams and Apocalypso favourites. Supporting the boys next year will be Parachute Youth and Light Year. Pacifica, which was released Wed Sep 12 this year, peaked at #3 on the ARIA charts. It comes four years after their second release Apocalypso which featured singles My People, This Boy’s In Love, Talk Like That and Yippiyo-Ay. Tickets are available through Ticketek. The Presets play at the Entertainment Centre on Tue Feb 5.

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International superstar and master of all things funk, soul, disco and house, Joey Negro is making a special appearance at this year’s A House Culture at Garage Bar. Going under his Joey Negro guise (as well as a wealth of others, including Jakatta, The Sunburst Band, Raven Maize just to name a few), he’s become one of the most commercially successful and in-demand artists on the global scene, having produced countless club smashes including Must Be The Music, Can’t Get High Without You, Make A Move On Me and (Jakatta) American Dream, as well as a remix for Diana Ross, Masters At Work, Mariah Carey and many more. Recently hailed by I-DJ Magazine as one of the 50 Most Influential People In The History Of Dance Music, Joey Negro is also famed for is eclectic and mindblowing live sets.

Ibiza’s Cafe Mambo resident, Pete Gooding, brings the Balearic attitude of the party island to Adelaide for the second time in less than a month when Miller City Sessions continues to showcase sites famed for their vibrant nightlife culture.

Joey Negro plays at Garage Bar on Fri Dec 28.

Ian Carey Ian Carey will bring the warm up party for New Year’s Eve on Sat Dec 29, dropping some of his biggest house anthems at Red Square. Kicking off his DJing career back in 1993, Carey moved on to producing in 1998, partnering up with Jason Papillon as part of Soul Providers, their first single Rise reaching number 59 on the UK Singles Charts. In 2003 Carey moved from his native USA to the Netherlands and then to Spain in 2006, releasing the single Get Shaky (as The Ian Carey Project), which went on to peak at number two in Australia and achieve double platinum status. The track also earned Carey an award for Best Dance Video at the MTV Australia Awards in 2009. Now based in Miami, in 2011 Carey also collaborated with Snoop Dogg and Bobby Anthony on the track Last Night, which was also remixed by Afrojack. Ian Carey plays at Red Square on Sat Dec 29.

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Alicia Keys Girl On Fire

Tiga Non Stop

Every now and then, the inevitability of modern life just drives us to either want to rip the fuck out of all around us, or just pull the plug and slip silently down the hole and into the quiet darkness beneath. Luckily, humans are not such a bunch of wet pussies. If we were, every time some gormless shitbag on a road bike wearing Lycra so tight you can see his ball veins was blocking traffic because him and his fellow douche have to ride side-by-side so they can talk about how motorists are so inconsiderate was blocking the path, we would either be reaching for the razor blades or running them down like a redhead at a beauty pageant. No, luckily we can put on records like this, light-up some sticky, and just sink into the couch, pleasantly smiling as we daydream about running over road cyclists and ripping on redheads.

Her fifth studio album may not be remarkable but Alicia Keys still shows her strength, talent and perseverance on Girl On Fire. From the piano instrumental opening, De Novo Adagio, it sets Keys apart from much of her competition, reminding everyone that she is first and foremost a classically trained musician. New Day takes the album in a new direction, with an explosive opener leading into the title track, Girl On Fire, which could have been stronger both lyrically and structurally. The appearance of Nicki Minaj is far too restrained and limited to add any real guts to the song beyond Keys’ belting chorus and, while both of these songs indicate Keys may be trying to muscle in on the commercial pop market, it’s an awkward fit. While the album may struggle with momentum, Keys’ voice and musicality remains as soulful and accomplished as ever, allowing the listener to feel comforted by the assuredness of her voice and lyrics.

From techno DJ to electro poster boy to Australian festival anthem spinner, it’s hard to pin down exactly what Tiga stands for as a DJ and a producer. Is he a kitschier version of James Murphy? A techno lover slumming it in mainstream electro or merely an eclectic chameleon? I was hoping his new mix for PIAS, Non Stop – his first commercial mix since an inthemix compilation with Ajax – would answer some questions and it does, a little. Even though the Turbo boss has released two decent artist albums (Sexor and Ciao!) his career highlight is his wonderful DJ-Kicks mix, where we saw Tiga’s sense of humour shine through with the Sunglasses At Night producer singing on remixes and covers alongside classic electro. Non Stop isn’t DJ-Kicks but the mix presents the best representation of Tiga as a tastemaker since the 2003 tour de force. Mixing acid techno and electro with the Tiga touch via productions and edits, Non Stop is a thrilling mix, which shows Tiga still has great taste (Auntie Flow, Tom Trago, Audion and Locked Groove) when not playing on an Australian field. Jeff Spicoli

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Why is Cafe Mambo such an iconic club in Ibiza? It’s famous for its sunsets and a great atmosphere – it’s kind of like putting music to a film. You take the visuals of the sun going down and you match that with your sound. Then, after it gets dark, I play heaps more atmospheric, deep house. We’ve also got an association with Pacha, so whoever is playing Pacha that night will come and do a pre-party set. After the DJ leaves, we calm the music down a bit and it becomes more bar-friendly again. I did 10 straight years as the main resident there and ever since I left I’ve been sporadically going in and out. You’ve lived in Ibiza a long time, what is it about the place that keeps you coming back? At the moment I’m living in LA because I’m doing lots of pop production but I used to live in Ibiza all year-round. I’ve played over 70 countries and there’s just nowhere like it. Imagine any other ordinary place – with billboards advertising restaurants and products – well, in Ibiza it’s like that but it’s all DJ and club advertising! On a Monday you can go to a party where Tiesto is playing, while across the road it’s Swedish House Mafia... Every night is pretty much like that. It lives and breathes dance music, it’s very inspiring.

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The concept of Miller City Sessions is to represent the sound of your club and place of residency – how are you doing that? Cafe Mambo is basically a beach bar. It’s this fantastic place on the beach that always plays exactly the kind of music that I like. I would normally do a very long set there, like nine hours. You can’t replicate it anywhere else, really, unless you have the same vibe, which is totally chilled out and a big variety of styles.

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One of Australia’s youngest hip hop collectives is also one of the nation’s most accomplished – locals Dialect & Despair have proven it with the recent release of sophomore album, Self Evident. A testament to the duo’s passion for their craft and the hip hop culture, the pair have recruited an impressive calibre of guests on the record, including Vordul Mega, Total Eclipse, Beneficence, Melanie Rutherford, Melanin 9, SITH, Majestic Gage and D Flow – even capturing the attention of a Harvard professor in the process. “We’ve had some amazing feedback from people who have been anticipating the album,” Dialect (AKA Nelson Hedditch) says. “We sold out the vinyl version of it in one day! Triple J has been liking it a lot. Within the first week that we released the single New Testament, we got 50,000 views on Vimeo and were lucky enough to be a ‘staff pick’ as well. It’s been getting some push on a few American blogs as well as some places in Europe. There’s been some people blogging about us in Japan too.” If that’s not an impressive list of fans, you can add the Harvard professor and author who used Dialect & Despair’s lyrics in his lecture at a Sydney teachers’ conference recently... “It was crazy!” Hedditch recalls. “He’s this professional at Harvard and he’s an English professor dealing with African-American literature. He’s written books on hip hop and he’s a published author of about five books actually. He came up to Australia to give a lecture at a seminar for English teachers in Sydney. He was talking about hip hop in the context of English and poetry. Luckily enough, someone who was with him at the

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time actually recommended one of our tracks for him to use as an example and he checked us out and was blown away. He asked us if he could use some of the lyrics off our first album The Vortex in his speech because he wanted to analyse them as a display of poetry and English within hip hop.” Dialect & Despair discovered they had yet another unlikely fan last month following the release of their latest single SABX (Feat Majestic Gage & D Flow). After uploading the brand new video on YouTube, the duo received praise from controversial Melbourne MC and recent ARIA Award winner 360, who wrote, “Mightn’t expect it but I really like what you guys are doing, even though my shit is mainstream and all that shit, I still love the underground shit when it’s done right... Keep it up boys”. Hedditch’s reaction? “I think that’s great. Look, he’s just an artist

and he’s just a person too. One way or another, people are very passionate about their views, but I’ve got nothing bad to say. I mean, he didn’t have to say that... And he did. A lot of people in the industry at his level have never put their neck out to say anything about our work, so it’s cool. I respect anyone who takes the time out to say that they appreciate what we’re doing.” And the mission statement remains the same, Hedditch assures. While the duo are currently based in Adelaide, there’s nothing ‘local’ about their brand of hip hop – Dialect & Despair’s vision is world-wide. “We take a universal approach to hip hop. We’re trying to push hip hop from this country to another place, not just nationally. That means no disrespect locally – it’s the opposite, actually – we’re wanting to put our country forward and to have it be recognised

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Breakbeat has always been a hybrid party genre – and today the whole of dance music is one giant mashup. No wonder, then, that British breaks don Krafty Kuts (AKA Martin Reeves) should so effortlessly reinvent himself. This year the Brighton native released a bold ‘artist’ album, Let’s Ride, on his fledgling imprint, Instant Vibes. “The response has been amazing,” Reeves enthuses. He explored “a new fresh direction” – bass music. The DJ has toured solidly behind Let’s Ride, visiting such exotic destinations as Macau (“I do love my travelling”). Meanwhile, he’s hosting nights in London.

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Digging hip hop, Reeves was DJing as a teen in the ‘80s. He’d later run record stores. By the mid-’90s Reeves was producing, blending hip hop, electro and breaks, but keeping it funky – well before EDM’s urban takeover. Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) picked up his Gimme The Funk for Southern Fried. Reeves conceived the long-running Brighton night SuperCharged with Skool Of Thought (Lloyd Seymour) and they launched a spin-off label. Against The Grain (ATG) was born. Reeves’ career exploded. He dropped an album with A Skillz (Adam Mills), Tricka Technology, Kurtis Blow a guest, on Finger Lickin’ in 2003. Reeves went solo for 2006’s Freakshow. He’s likewise mixed comps, including a Back To Mine. Reeves spent three years making Let’s Ride. Along the way, he found himself without a label. Reeves had largely handled ATG’s

A&R, Seymour overseeing its day-to-day operations. The latter eventually assumed ownership, taking the label with him to Australia. Then he “just kinda like moved away from the scene,” Reeves says, ATG currently on hiatus. The DJ stresses that Seymour is “still a good friend”. He ain’t mad. Regardless, Reeves devised Instant Vibes, naming it for his first record shop in seaside Worthing. He’s happy to be “in control now”. Reeves has left behind nu-skool breaks, though not the “hooks”. His sound in 2012? “Sometimes I think that people like to have something that they can pigeonhole, but now I think that things have changed. I don’t know – it’s just bass music. It’s just good dance music with lots of bass, lots of funk, soul... It’s music with soul. It’s got something that can remind you about something that’s good. It’s not

on a different scale.” For the time being, Dialect & Despair are focusing on the official Adelaide launch of Self Evident, and as Hedditch reveals, we can expect some special guest appearances at the show. “We’re bringing Jake Biz and Lazy Grey, who is a hip hop legend in Australia. He hasn’t done a show in Australia for about eight years I think, so this is our way of doing something special for our fans, just an extra thing to make the night really come alive. It’s also allages because we wanted to bring something for the kids too.” WHO: Dialect & Despair WHAT: Self Evident (Uknowho/Obese) WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Fri Jan 4

serious music... or it’s [not] too deep. It’s fun, it makes you smile... But it’s not too commercial – it’s just good music. That’s what I’m all about: good times.” And Reeves is working with new collaborators. The biggest ‘name’ on Let’s Ride is longtime ally Dynamite MC of Reprazent fame, yet Reeves also recruited Sydney’s Stellar MC. Lately, he’s teamed with Bristol dubstepper Calvertron, previewing their Drop at Dubai’s Sandance. Ultimately, Reeves is still a populist, like Cook. The DJ may strive to “keep moving”, but he also loves playing to a crossgenerational audience, not being inclined to alienate old fans. He’s approached to DJ at weddings. Nonetheless, while his music has been used in a Coca Cola campaign, he holds no desire to produce cheesy dance-pop. Reeves is possibly accessibly cred. “I’m really challenging myself to put out really good music, dance music, rather than suddenly write loads of hit records or pop music that might see my career just go down the pan straightaway and all the hard work of 15 years. I might as well stick to what I’m best at doing.” Reeves, himself engaged (and a dad), is a cheerful guy. His biggest ‘worry’ is trying to set aside time to bunker down in the studio when DJing constantly since he loves both. The old Aussie fave, who toured in April, is back this summer with Mills, whose talents he praises. The two have returned to the studio after a few years, a James Bond mini-mix for Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show a huge hit. “He’s been working with other people and he’s been working on his new stuff and then we’ve been doing DJ sets together – and now to get back into the studio, it’s really good. It’s really good for both of us because we’re both feeling inspired at the moment.” WHO: Krafty Kuts WHAT: Summadayze WHERE: Rymill Park WHEN: Mon Dec 31

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Tour Guide/ THU DEC 13

PIGEON (Bris), ANIMAUX, SAILER GERALD & SNO DROP DJS @ Jive THE PIGS (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf LOREN (NSW) & FREYA HANLEY (Vic) @ Grace Emily

FRI DEC 14

THE BON SCOTTS (Vic), THE HONEY PIES & FAKE TAN @ Jive CUB SCOUTS (Bris) & PHEBE STARR (Syd) @ Rocket Bar LISA MILLER (Vic) & DAN LETHBRIDGE (VIC) @ Wheatsheaf BOOMGATES (Vic) @ Hotel Metro

SAT DEC 15

WES CARR’S BUFFALO TALES (Syd) & LAURA HILL @ Wheatsheaf 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) & ONLY SON (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

THU JAN 24

WOODS (US) @ Format RORY ELLIS (Vic) @ Gilbert Hotel

FRI JAN 25

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

SUN JAN 27

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

THU JAN 31

SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Goolwa Aquatic Centre THE WATERBOYS (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre 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

FRI DEC 21

THE STIFFYS (Vic) & THE BASKERVILLES @ Crown & Anchor

SAT DEC 22

TUE FEB 5

MON DEC 31

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

THU JAN 3

AUSTIN LUCAS, CLAUDE HAY & PJ BOND @ Grace Emily

FRI JAN 4

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

SAT JAN 5

LOS CORONAS (Spain) @ Space Theatre

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

FRI JAN 18

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

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

Wed Feb 6

RORY MCLEOD (UK) @ Star Theatre (Hilton)

THU FEB 7

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

FRI FEB 8

LANEWAY FESTIVAL: BAT FOR LASHES (UK), JAPANDROIDS (Can), JESSIE WARE (UK), HOLY OTHER (UK), JULIA HOLTER (US), CHET FAKER, ALPINE, THE RUBENS and so many more @ COLIN HAY (Vic) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

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

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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

WED FEB 27 VIN GARBUT (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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WHO: Lisa Miller WHAT: Meet The Misses (Inertia) WHERE: Wheatsheaf Hotel WHEN: Fri Dec 14

TUE FEB 12 CELTIC THUNDER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

TUE FEB 26 ED SHEERAN (UK) & PASSENGER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre GLENN FREY (US) & ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA @ Festival Theatre

ALESTORM (US) @ Fowler’s Live

Peter Jones and Ashley Davies as well as bass player Howard Cairns. “But I’ve now got Shannon Birchall on bass who’s just such a wonderful player with a great singing voice too,” Miller says. “Shannon used to play with The John Butler Trio. So it’ll be me, Shane, Ashley and Shannon in Adelaide.” Also along for the ride over to Adelaide will be Melbourne singer songwriter Dan Lethbridge. “Dan’s going to woo the ladies with his handsomeness and his glasses,” Miller suggests with a knowing laugh. “So, Shane O’Mara and Dan will be playing together first. And then Shane will be getting back on stage and playing with me.”

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“The only way I was going to get those albums back was to involve paying large sums of money to lawyers,” Miller, who has played Adelaide in the past as opening act for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and The Cruel Sea, sighs. “So I had to blot that out and move on but before I did a new album [of new material] I thought I’d record some of those older songs again. “And initially I wasn’t even going to put it out as a commercial release – it was just something for me that I thought I might make

available for download – but then I thought that because they were such a long time ago, some people might not even know about them. “So it feels good to have them out again as my new release,” Miller adds. “And I really love the cover.” Meet The Misses’ cover is a painting of a lopsided lady with a large black hat who is carefully balancing a glass of wine on one side of the brim and a bottle on the other. “It’s a painting I’ve had for a long time that I’ve always wanted to use for an album cover,” Miller says. “And it felt right for this one with it being called Meet The Misses because she reminds me so much of me. And, with this album, it also felt like I was doing some kind of precarious balancing act.” Meet The Misses was produced by Shane O’Mara, who often works with Tim Rogers and who produced The Audreys’ three ARIA award winning albums. O’Mara also plays guitar on the album alongside drummers

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

MON FEB 25 CAT POWER (US) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

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

Melbourne songstress Lisa Miller’s first two albums, Quiet Girl With A Credit Card and As Far As A Life Goes, have long been unavailable, but her latest offering, Meet The Misses, features recent re-recordings of key songs from those two albums.

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SAT JAN 19

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS (US) @ Jive

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FRI FEB 1

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

MAGIC BONES (Vic) & HORROR MY FRIEND @ Hotel Metro THE STIFFYS (Vic), THE BARON & CHERRY GRIND @ Jetty Bar (Glenelg)

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Tim Nelson had been kicking around the Brisbane music scene for a couple of years before forming Cub Scouts. The young singer songwriter’s secured modest respect and success within the local community, performing alongside local indie favourites like Montpelier and Charlie Mayfair. Still, nothing in his career up to that point would have suggested the success he’s since found as frontman of rising indie pop stars Cub Scouts. Since piecing the band together back in 2011, Nelson has criss-crossed the country, performed at Laneway Festival and secured multiple Queensland Music Awards. “That was just a massive surprise,” Nelson says of Cub Scouts’ Song Of The Year nod for single Do You Hear. “We’d already won Pop

Song Of The Year earlier in the night and that was completely unexpected – we were up against people like Kate Miller-Heidke and Busby Marou – so when we won Song Of The Year it was just unbelievable. It’s definitely been a surprising year. I didn’t really expect much at all. I remember when we released our first single Evie, my only ambition was to get it played on Triple J once – so when it did get played I was ecstatic. That was all I wanted. And then it got added to full rotation, community radio got behind us and it’s just been amazing ever since.” It’s a particular shock given the origins of the project. Nelson didn’t form the band with any intention of vaulting out of the singer songwriter arena. It was simply a chance to have fun with friends and music “I think I always wanted to have a band that people would actually listen to. I wanted Cub Scouts to be more enjoyable to listen to. With the songs I was writing earlier on, I

didn’t enjoy playing them; and if I don’t enjoy playing them I don’t know why anyone would want to listen to them. I just wanted to write catchier, more upbeat songs, really.” A lot of this success occured before Cub Scouts had even released anything substantial. It’s only been in the past few months that the band have unveiled their debut EP, Told You So. “I mean, sure, people’s expectations were probably raised because of all that stuff but, generally, it’s nice to know that people will be paying attention to us at all. The reception for the EP has been really great – we’ve gotten some nice reviews and people have been very kind to us. It’s all going a bit better than I expected, really.” WHO: Cub Scouts WHAT: Told You So (Independent) WHERE: Rocket WHEN: Fri Dec 14

The Guide // Thursday 13th

Friday 14th

ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) Top Room: Bebe Cool (6pm) AUSTRAL – Bunka: DJs BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJ Paul Gurry. Band Room: Like Kites with Pink Noise Generator and Rocketeers DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz. Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke party night EXETER ON RUNDLE – Brenton Manser with Heymus and Caitlyn Lesiuk

ADELAIDE CASINO – Oasis Bar: Dino Jag Duo (9pm) ALMA TAVERN – Rock Out With Your C*ck Out AMBASSADORS HOTEL – Ambar Lounge: Souled Out Cocktail Sessions with DJ Jason Lee (5.30pm) ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: Nat Pike (6pm) The Incredibles (10pm) Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) AYERS HOUSE – Velvet BELAIR HOTEL – Lily & The Drum (8.30pm) BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Fusion – The Perfect Blend karaoke and DJ (8pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Super Heroes Of Rock (8pm) BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BROADWAY HOTEL – DJ Sneaky Beats BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Slyde COOPERS ALEHOUSE: WALLAROO – Mascara CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Ride Into The Sun DJs (1am) Band Room: Party with Dead End Friend and Pretty Ugly DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Peter Jenkins (7pm) DOG & DUCK – DTF with D Foe, Krunk, Dom P, Ryley, Kid P and MC Jon-E DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K DUBLIN HOTEL – Proton Pill (7pm) ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm) EMU HOTEL – The Angels Tribute Show (8pm) ENIGMA – Breaking Orbit, Tabula Rasa, Zen Stella and Hawkai (Bar 2) Cortisol, Priority Orange, Existential Deception and Slap Granny (Bar 3) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Redline EXETER HOTEL – The Hitmen EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Sweet Decline with Horror My Friend, The Sunbirds and Dead End Friends FEATHERS HOTEL – Antony Hubmayer FINDON HOTEL – karaoke

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – RISE IN SILENCE, ALL THAT I’M ASKING, WINGS OF ATLANTIS, PROMISE OF AN EMPTY SKY AND TINA GRAY GASLIGHT TAVERN – Groove Thursdays with Rob Ernst’s All-Star Band GILBERT STREET HOTEL – Johnny McIntyre (7pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam with Shades Of Blue GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Loren with Freya Hanly JADE MONKEY – Pigeon and Animaux JETTY BAR – No Use For A DJ Name (8pm) LA BOHEME – French Connection with DJ Zooma (9pm) MARBLE BAR – Ladies Night with Dylan Sanders, VIP, Rupheo, Mike Wills, Ben Earle and Acid Please! MARION CULTURAL CENTRE – Open Mic Cabaret Café (6.30pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) MARS BAR – VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night ORIENTAL HOTEL – Shane Wolf PARADISE HOTEL – Complete Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Dylan PORTLAND HOTEL – DJs Cold One and Rabbit (9.30pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international guests THE ELEPHANT – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Brad Iversen (8.30pm) WEST ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – BRISTOL SCALE, THE TOSS AND SUBTRACT S GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Christmas show: Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones Show. Front Bar: Astro Cobalt GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Your Motive For GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Dale Roberts (6pm) HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – The Paybacks (7pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs TKA & Krispy

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THE ELEPHANT – Unknown To Man and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – DJ Gex (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Troy Harrison (4.45pm) Audio Duo (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Tempus Vex (9.30pm) UNION HOTEL – DJ Pauly plays ‘80s and ‘90s VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs Marek and Michael Constant plus MC Kris WAKEFIELD HOTEL – DJ Electric T and guests WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Lisa Miller album launch (9pm) WHITEHORSE INN – karaoke with Ally & Co WHITMORE HOTEL – Blues Avenue (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – UK Blitz (8.30pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Finn, Gumshoe and Bottle Rockets

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HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker and Bangwel (8pm) JIVE – Gay Paris, Silent Duck and Kelshy KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – Wild Card and karaoke LA BOHEME – DJ Tr!p and DJ Anthony alternate (9pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Troy Harrison LIMBO – resident DJs Delux, The Swiss DJs and Paul Glen LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ and MC Renard (10pm) MARBLE BAR – I <3 MB with DJs and MCs plus national and international guests MARINA SUNSET BAR – DJs playing the best in house and electro MARION HOTEL – Franky F (6pm) Dave Freeman & The Reason (9pm)

MARION OUTDOOR POOL – SOUNDS OF SUMMER FEATURING BREAKING RUNDLE, SINCERELY GRIZZLY, GEORGIA GERMEIN, GRIFTERS INC, HORROR MY FRIEND, TIL THE BREAK AND OREO BASS (4PM) MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MCCRACKEN COUNTRY CLUB – Cornesy’s Allstar Rock Band and The Rubys MICK O’SHEA’S – The Highlights OLD SPOT HOTEL – Diskonnect (10pm) ORIENTAL – 2 Up Duo

PARADISE HOTEL – After Five PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Good Company PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Dance On PJ O’BRIENS – Triple X PRODUCERS BAR – Jess Porter, Youth & Wonder, Filthy Lucre and Rin & The Reckless

RAMSGATE HOTEL – ADELAIDE’S BEST COVER BANDS RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANTIAGO – Hussyboy (8.30pm)

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Sunday 16th ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School ARKABA HOTEL – Sportys Bar + Arena: DJ Glen Aikman (3pm) BAROSSA VALLEY BREWING – Lily & The Drum (1pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Whiskey Harbour (4pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Dirty Chins, Pumpometre, Colourvision and Wormwood DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Blue Katz (1pm) DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL – No Use For A DJ Name (9pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Underground Orchid ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) EMU HOTEL – Behind Bars (5pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – 2 Up Duo EXETER ON RUNDLE – Matt & Naomi

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – VENUS SLYTRAP AND CAUSING HAMMOCK FOWLER’S LIVE – Suicidal Tendencies and Unwritten Law GENERAL HAVELOCK – Eddie (Wasabi) (4pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – The Airbenders featuring Anita Wardell (2pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Salt & Pepper Swing: Christmas Comes, Let’s Swing GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Brillig Christmas Show HIGHBURY HOTEL – Gerry O HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm) JAM THE BISTRO – DJ Tango LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Swap Sides LICKERISH KITCHEN – JJ Fields & Snooks (2pm) LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – UK Blitz MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music

MARION CULTURAL CENTRE PLAZA – Local Artists At The Plaza (1pm) MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – E’nuf Said OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Unknown To Man Duo ORIENTAL – Roger & Regan PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Graham Breeding Jazz Trio PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – The Hitmen

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SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS SEMAPHORE PALAIS – The Incredibles SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Dead Lucky (4pm) SOMERSET HOTEL – Big Cheese (3pm) SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) THE MAID – acoustic Sunday sessions (4pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Ella & Friends (2pm) VIRGINIA NURSERY – Angelo WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Bonz WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Beggars (4pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Bluegrass Sunday featuring Cripple Creek, Cherry Pickers, Rowan Blackmore and Mark Jennings (3pm) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Gumshoe and Ryley ZOOTZ – Salsa night (every second week)

Monday 17th AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia AVOCA HOTEL – Schnitty & Trivia Night (7pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – Complete Trivia BOATHOUSE TAVERN: TAPEROO – Complete Trivia BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Dieselwitch Acoustic with Bronte McCallum EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – Coops & The Bird

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ultimate Quiz with Graham Lawrence (7pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Jake The Snake (8pm) ORIENTAL – 2 Up Duo PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen TOWER HOTEL – Complete Trivia WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Coma Spring Sessions featuring Fleur Green and Marmalade Circus (8pm)

Tuesday 18th AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CAVAN HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: DJs Stevie & Duncan. Band Room: Cranker Comedy DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) DEEP BLUE CAFÉ – Rob McDade (7pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – DJs J & Nath GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Yours Truly album launch HOTEL METRO – Thomas Williams, Ben Tymukus, Franks & Noah and Tasman Strachan ORIENTAL – Shane Wolf PARADISE HOTEL – Memory Lane Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) PORT NOARLUNGA CHRISTIES BEACH RSL – Acoustic Rendezvous live music open mic (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE COVE TAVERN – Complete Trivia THE GOODY – Complete Trivia THE GRIFFINS – fresh, funky and progressive tunes THE KINGS BAR – Old Skool Funk with Nixon and Penfold. Back Bar: APL poker THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Tuesday (7pm) VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Wednesday 19th ARKABA – Sportys Bar + Arena: Ciaram Granger (5pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma

CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Complete Trivia CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia COLONNADES TAVERN – Memory Lane Trivia (12.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Ben David Presents. Front Bar: Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) DOM POLSKI CENTRE – salsa lessons (6.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!) ED CASTLE – Chad Baker, Julia Clarke, Trevor Tao & Eric, Marcel Blanch de Wilt and Matthew Morrison EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Complete Trivia FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SUNNYBOY AL’S KRAZY KARAOKE GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia GLYNDE HOTEL – NPL Poker (6.30pm and 10.30pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Weekend Warriors GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Mary Webb HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm) Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HOLDFAST HOTEL – Nonstop Dance Party with DJs Mike Wills & VIP HQ – Flashdance JETTY BAR – karaoke LA BOHEME – The New Cabal (9pm) LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – DJs (9pm) MANSIONS – live band karaoke MARION HOTEL – Mikey Robbins Comedy End Of The World Party (8pm) MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection ORIENTAL – 2 Up Duo PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE GOODY – Kickstart DJs THE KINGS BAR – DJ Yusef Wilson THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill TONSLEY HOTEL – quiz night (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Hump De Bump with DJ Ryley (8pm) TOWER HOTEL – Uni Night with DJ Dom P TOWER TAVERN: RENMARK – Complete Trivia WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – Creating Styles Karaoke (9pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

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Love Story Florian Habicht, Love Story’s director, co-writer, art-director and centrepiece, is meant to be talking about the film on the line from London when the following phone interview is hooked up but, surprisingly, he instead begins by discussing his next film.

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I really wanted to be there for the release of the film in Australia, and I was looking forward to it greatly, but a lot of things have happened here in the last few weeks,” he explains in his cheerful German-Kiwi accent, “and now I’m making a movie here instead. It’s going to be with the whole Love Story team, the key team, and we’re making a Pulp concert-filmslash-documentary about the band and about Jarvis Cocker. We’re going to be making it in collaboration with the band, and it all came about when Jarvis saw Love Story at the London Film Festival and loved it… Yep, it’s a dream-come-true project.” But Habicht’s Love Story is the movie that we’re supposed to be discussing here, so Rip It Up asks him to sort fact from fiction regarding

how the film got made. Is it true that 1) He went to New York intending to make the film, 2) He went to New York and the film started making itself or 3) He truly began putting the film together when his filmmaking grant money ran out? “Um, yes, that third one is correct, you’re right! I was really lucky, like winning the lottery, and I got an artist residency to spend a year living in New York [from the New Zealand Arts Foundation]… A year in New York with no obligations but to be generally inspired by the city. And so I spent a year there feeling alive and free and just loving it, and not really writing or working… And you’re right: it was about three weeks before the end of it that I decided that I had to make a film, and the idea for Love Story just happened really, really fast. A year from me beginning the script to the opening night premiere, you know, that’s fast!” Habicht’s film, in his words, “works on many levels”, but, first and foremost, it’s about a relationship, and one that he (as ‘himself ’) ostensibly has with Masha Yakovenko (as ‘herself ’). So how exactly did he meet her? “It ruins the film for some people, but no, I didn’t meet her on the subway [where she’s

arrestingly seen carrying a slice of cake]: I actually met her on the street late at night. It was actually Thanksgiving night, and I had been at a party with all of these musicians and I was carrying furniture back from Brooklyn. I only talked to Masha for about five minutes, but I was just really taken by her… When I thought of her again, I never actually asked her to audition: I just asked her to be in the film, and we arranged to meet and discuss the film, and then I arranged with her to film that meeting. It was at New York’s Mars Bar, and the scene you see in Love Story in which we meet at the Mars Bar was indeed the first time that we really met.” Love Story plays with notions of relationships in the movies and attitudes we all have to romance and sex in contemporary times, but it also seems to be a chronicle of a genuine relationship (as that previous comment tends to suggest). So is it? Did Habicht and Yakovenko actually have a relationship - or was it strictly for the camera? He laughs. “You mean, did Bill Clinton really have sex with Monica Lewinsky? [more laughter] You know, all movies are ‘set up’, but with this movie real things just seemed to keep on happening in it. I love that about film: you make something fake, and pretend that you can’t see the guy holding the boom mic, but then you try to look for something real and some truth in it. In Love Story everything got blurred.”

Beg Borough Steal Florian Habicht gives a Love Story co-writing credit to ‘The People Of New York’ due to the spontaneous nature of the film’s creation on the streets of the city. “I don’t know about Masha and me, but everyone you see on the street is real, all the people that I talk to, and everything that they say is unscripted. That’s the beauty of it. It’s magic… Like Reggie, beautiful Reggie [a jolly guy at a bus stop dispensing profound romantic advice]. A wonderful guy! And everything he said was real.”

And then we’re back to the Pulp film, and that’s not surprising as “today is only the second day of filming it. And so really I’ve already told you everything that there is to know about it... It’s only the beginning, and I don’t want to jinx it, as the adventure’s only just started.” WHAT: Love Story WHERE: Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas WHEN: Now screening

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Love Is All You Need (M) Danish director Susanne Bier (working from a script by frequent collaborator Anders Thomas Jensen) tends towards tough-love dramas (like In A Better World, After The Wedding and the original Brothers), and yet her latest has been put forward as a romantic comedy at heart, which it is, to a point - albeit one that comes from a core of real pain. Hairdresser Ida (the very fine Trine Dyrholm) is a breast cancer survivor introduced talking to her doctor, arriving home early and catching her hubby Leif (Kim Bodnia) having it off with his secretary (he’s suffered too, he says) and, while this seems likely to spoil the impending Italian wedding of Ida and Leif ’s daughter, both decide to attend anyway. And, along the way, Ida

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literally runs into Philip (Pierce Brosnan encouraging some odd comparisons to Mamma Mia!), the father of the groom and a longtime bad-tempered widower, and the stage is thereafter set for perhaps one of the most biting of all dramatic/comedic sub-genres: the familial one. There are maybe one too many characters here (Philip’s late wife’s ghastly sister, Ida’s military son and Leif ’s gal-pal all turn up), and yet Bier’s film is nevertheless nicely moving, with probably the best straight work ever by Brosnan and a beautiful performance by the rather unknown Dyrholm, who never asks for easy sympathy for Ida, and like all the characters here and indeed all the characters in your own life - is only human. Mad Dog Bradley

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Moonlight Cinema continues with: Dredd (MA) on Thu Dec 13; Ted (MA) on Fri Dec 14; The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (M) on Sat Dec 15; Arbitrage (M) on Sun Dec 16; End Of Watch (MA) on Tue Dec 18; and Bachelorette (MA) on Wed Dec 19. All details: moonlight.com.au.

Opening But Unrated Liberal Arts (M), writer/director/ producer/star Josh (How I Met Your Mother) Radnor’s college-set character piece, has him alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, Alison Janney and (swoon) Zac Efron.

Pitch Perfect (M)

Paris-Manhattan (M)

A college-set comedy about competing a cappella groups doesn’t necessarily sound like comic gold, and yet director Jason Moore’s peppy pic (drawn from Mickey Rapkin’s book) is still a fun watch and doesn’t hit too many bum notes. Beca (Anna Kendrick) is a freshman at Barden University and keen to pursue her DJ-ish/hip hoppy musical interests before being convinced to join The Bellas, a rather disgraced a cappella outfit headed by the scarily nervy and controlling Aubrey (Anna Camp), who’s convinced that fame for the gals can be achieved by performing such hoary old classics as Ace Of Base’s The Sign. However, Beca and other new recruits (including Rebel Wilson’s ‘Fat Amy’) work hard to drag the mismatched mob out of music’s supposed dark ages while, along the way, putting the wind up showpony boy-band The Treble Makers, with whom they, at one point, have a sing-off in an empty swimmingpool and attack each other with Like A Virgin, Mickey, Hit Me With Your Best Shot and… hang on! Wasn’t this supposed to be about The Bellas hauling themselves out of the past?!? Director Moore manages a light touch throughout and coaxes surprisingly strong work from Wilson, Camp and, in sequences that were apparently improvised, co-producer Elizabeth Banks and John Michael Higgins, who turn up to commentate on the finals and steal the film with their cynical, un-PC banter. And then there’s Kendrick who, away from those damn Twilight films, can be very charming - no matter how big her teeth are. Mad Dog Bradley

Writer/director Sophie Lellouche’s French romantic comedy takes a cue from Play It Again, Sam (that rare Woody Allen movie which he didn’t actually direct), only here it’s a poster of the early ‘70s Woody himself, not Bogart, who’s handing out the romantic advice, and not to some poor bespectacled schmuck but to our ludicrously Woodyobsessed heroine. Alice (Alice Taglioni) is preparing to take over her family’s popular pharmacist business and continually turning to the fantasy Allen (who speaks in grabs taken from Manhattan and many more of his key pics), especially when it comes to questions of relationships, something she tends to do rather badly (an early bighair flashback, where we see Louis-Do de Lencquesaing’s Pierre go for her but wind up with her sister Hélène, is particularly absurd). When Alice meets security expert (got that?) Victor (famed French actor/singer Patrick Bruel), every possible grinding contrivance is thrown at the pair to keep them apart, and yet Lellouche still struggles to get the runningtime up to feature-film length. Many will already know (or easily guess) what Paris-Manhattan’s big late-on ‘secret’ is but, unfortunately, it takes so long to get to that point, and Taglioni’s Alice is so unbelievably irritating and given to preposterous tricks (as when she lends three Woody DVDs to a gunman during a holdup), that you’ll find it hard to care what the hell eventually happens in the final act. And please don’t play it again, Sophie. Mad Dog Bradley

Here Comes The Boom (M) Kevin James reteams with Zookeeper and The Dilemma screenwriters Rock Reuben and Allan Loeb, and steals from pal Adam Sandler’s back catalogue, in the hopes that someone else’s good idea will finally spell a success for him. His hopes are unfounded. Replacing grandma’s house with a school, and golf with MMA, James’ Scott, a once award-winning teacher, fading in a system that doesn’t care, pulls a Happy Gilmore of his own, attempting to save the extracurricular programs at his failing school, and thus the job of his music teacher friend, by raising the extra funds as an MMA fighter. With the understanding that James exclusively plays pathetic (but earnest!) losers, it’s obvious that this crazy plan is going to have more than its fair share of cringe-worthy moments along the way. Featuring Greg Germann (making somewhat of a comeback of late with House Of Lies), Henry Winkler and Salma Hayek as fellow schoolies, and the bad guy, mentor and love interest respectively, James has good people around him, and snaps should go out for trying to give the story a thin layer of sincerity, but, while (hopefully) no one goes to a Kevin James film expecting to find Oscar bait, it’s still disappointing to see him deliver yet another predictable mess of overdone jokes and (particularly this time) borderline plagiarism. Kevin James has potential. Maybe he should pull a reverse John C Reilly, leave the comedy behind for a little drama and finally get a chance to show it. Kat McCarthy

And Rise Of The Guardians (PG), an animated extravaganza from director Peter Ramsey (as drawn from William Joyce’s book), features the voices of Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher and Hugh Jass… sorry, Jackman.

Recently Released And Rated Celeste And Jesse Forever (MA) **1/2 Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (M) ***1/2 Love Story (MA) ***1/2 The Man With The Iron Fists (MA) *** The Perks Of Being A Wallflower M) **** Skyfall (M) **** Step Up To The Plate (G) ***

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Writer/director/producer/star Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? is 2012’s final Seniors On Screen offering at the Mercury Cinema, and happens on Fri Dec 14 at 11am. Details: mercurycinema.org.au.

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with Miranda Freeman

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Slowly but surely the laneways of Adelaide are starting to fill up. These bustling little backstreets are welcoming new cafes, eateries and takeaway stores to suit our every culinary desire. The Soup Shop is tucked away on Vardon Ave, just off Rundle St, and is getting itself a great little reputation with the locals as the place to drop in and pick up a quick lunch to take back to the office. Their delicious soups are the main drawcard, but they also have a bunch of fresh salads and focaccias. The ‘Citrus Infusion’ vegan laksa is a light broth with shaved fennel and cabbage. This tasty creation is subtly spicy and, quite surprisingly, the perfect summer soup. More robust (and also vegan) are the ‘Casablanca’ Mediterranean lentils and vegetable soup, as well as the ‘Enchanted Forest’ featuring roasted garlic and mushroom. For those of us that prefer a bit of beef in our broth, the ‘Chimney’ smoky chorizo and vegetable soup is a chunky delight. Moving on to salads, I gave the Cajun chicken a go and also the beetroot and feta. Although these are pre-packed, they’re fresh and flavoursome. The grab and run concept is one of the great things about The Soup Shop but if you’ve got time you need to stop by the garnish station, which is packed with a huge selection of extra ingredients included in the price of your salad. Otherwise, they’re happy to let you build your own ‘Lego Salad’. Their soup and salad range changes regularly as they make the most of regional and seasonal produce and The Soup Shop’s support of local business extends to being a part of the Oz Harvest Community who rescue excess food to help those in need. The friendly and non-fuss staff make The Soup Shop a pleasure to visit, and the quality and freshness of the ingredients entice you to keep going back for a vitamin-packed takeaway. Next time you’re in the area keep an eye out for the fruit dangling from the tree on Vardon Ave: a deliciously healthy lunch awaits.

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The Soup Shop

Food Review d by Paul Woo

WHAT: The Soup Shop WHERE: 12 – 18 Vardon Ave, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Sat 10am – 3pm INFO: soupshop.com.au Paul Wood is the local foodie behind the 12 Tables dinner party concept. Visit facebook.com/paulwoodsa for more info.

El Jimador Margarita To help wash down all the blood and gore of Tarantino’s Kill Bill at the next Rocket Rooftop Cinema this Wednesday, grab yourself an El Jimador margarita. Made especially for the Rocket Rooftop, this is the perfect drink to bring outside with good friends and good vibes... and in this circumstance, good films. To bring a taste of the outdoor ambience home, here’s the recipe for the Rooftop Margarita. Ingredients 50ml El Jimador tequila 15ml lime juice 10ml Cointreau 5ml agave syrup Method 1. Rim your margarita glass with Murray River pink salt. 2. Combine Cointreau, lime juice and El Jimador tequila and thoroughly shake with ice. Strain into a margarita glass. 3. Garnish with a wafer thin lime wheel.

WHAT: Rocket Rooftop Cinema WHERE: 142 Hindley St, Adelaide WHEN: Wed Dec 19, doors 7pm INFO: facebook.com/rocketrooftop

Local Libations

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

Hahndorf Hill Winery 2011 Rosé I drink a lot of rose. There I said it, I’m out! So, looking for something unique? Enter Hahndorf Hill 2011 Rosé. This is seriously smart booze. A duet of two relatively unknown German and Austrian grape varieties, Trollinger and Blaufrankisch, team up in the fight to have us imbibe something a little different. The nose is strawberries and cream with a hint of straw and spice. Spice meets an almost bitter orange zest at front palate and carries a slight creaminess balanced by lemon peel and fantastic minerality. It finishes dry and craving a few more. Join Sharon Jones & Dap-Kings over some lemon and thyme olives and you’re in a pretty happy place. Prost!

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Stars //

Taurus 21.04/20.05

In getting to the intensity of your emotions, you have sorted out what you really feel and, in the process, discovered who stays with you when the going gets rough. Love hangs in through the tough bits, to find even deeper layers of light. Savour these transformative moments.

Gemini 21.05/21.06

Jupiter keeps insisting that you broaden your horizons, that you broaden your whole sense of what is possible for you. If you’re labouring under any misconceptions that keep you small, then it’s time to lay them down and rethink your path. Be grand without being grandiose.

Cancer 22.06/22.07

Life isn’t opposing you directly. It is putting a bit of heat under you – without you feeling so much confronted as challenged. There’s a good chance that this challenge will inspire you to have a rethink and become more passionate about your journey through the world.

Venus remains in Scorpio, where she continues to pull you into the feelings that have been under the carpet. Though your lovely feathers may feel like they are being ruffled, you are being taken through a process of regeneration that will deepen your sense of beauty. Trust it.

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

Though you might think you aren’t quite ready to get up on your horse and ride off into the next adventure, life knows you are. Endless quiet contemplation can become stasis if it’s entertained for too long. Accept the movement that is happening, without reluctance. Saddle up.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12

The sun is shining in the very midst of Sagittarius. In particular it is shining on all those little habits of distraction that keep you away from the bigger adventures you might be having. Watch for the ways you are leaking energy. Plug the leaks and get on with your calling.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01

Both Mars and Pluto are dancing. They are doing much better than the average Australian male at the local pub. They are blitzing the dancefloor. Both of these powerful masculine planets are in celebration mode. Be open, wise, creative and strong – in the face of change.

Create+Combine Create+Combine is back for round three! The four-day exhibition will be held at the majestic Queen’s Theatre on Playhouse Lane this Thu Dec 13 – Sun Dec 16. The event will showcase 20 local and interstate artists, ranging through a variety of mediums from photography to aerosol, acrylics to

moving film. Alongside the works on display will be live tattooing, keynote speakers and demonstrations, live local bands, DJs, food and wine tastings. The Saturday night will welcome party crew Fourwords to the stage as they host their own warehouse party featuring a number of live

acts. The doors open at 7pm. For the full schedule head to their website.

Jam Factory

Espionage Gallery Tooth & Nail

WHAT: Create+Combine WHERE: Queen’s Theatre, Adelaide WHEN: Thu Dec 13 – Sun Dec 16 INFO: eventgarde.com.au

Aquarius 20.01/18.02

You are in the role of communicator, storyteller. Approach your task with sincerity. Rather than just give your perspective, get curious about the perspectives of others who have been given very different roles to play. By hearing people’s tales in all their glory, respect follows.

Virgo 23.08/22.09

Mercury is still in Scorpio. He is still insisting that you be with the intensity of a variety of emotions so that their very energy purifies you and sets you back on track. This is an emotional re-fresh. Clear the decks. Clear the table. Clear your spirit for the next adventure.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Leo 23.07/22.08

Before you fully come into your own, you must know what you stand for. There’s no point in being in a position of influence if you are a loose cannon. Really consider the vision in your heart. Really consider what is meaningful to you – and be ready to communicate it.

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Daniel Noone

That you are dancing with the difficulties that are arising in your life is a good sign. It means that your sense of adventure is operating in a very healthy way – in a wise way in fact. With Mars in Capricorn, now is a time for having substance, having spine. Build on this.

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Aries 21.03/20.04

with Sudhir

Pisces 19.02/20.03

Sometimes it’s not easy. Sometimes life really tests us and makes us sweat. If you can see the guiding hand of compassion in this, at least eventually, then being here on planet Earth becomes a miracle. At the time though, it’s okay to rail and rave. Be at home in your own heart.

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19 Morphett St, Adelaide Generate Fri Dec 15 – Fri Jan 25

Generate 2012 is the annual exhibition of work by the dedicated emerging artists who have just completed Jam Factory’s two-year associate training program. The showcase will feature nine students from the furniture, metal design, glass and ceramic studios with their own signature, final works on display.

Suite 1, Level 2, 93 Rundle Mall, Adelaide Allstars: End Of Year Exhibition Thu Dec 13 – Sun Dec 23

As far as exhibition proactivity goes, Espionage Gallery wins the prize, having put on a brand new exhibition nearly every week for the majority of 2012. They’ll be wrapping up the year in style with Allstars: End Of Year Exhibition featuring over 70 of the best artists from Adelaide, interstate and overseas including Gary Seaman, Creature Creature, Donovan Christie and Jake Two. Opening: Thu Dec 13 from 6pm

22–28 Coromandel Plc, Adelaide Tooth & Nail One Year Anniversary Fri Dec 14 – Fri Dec 21

It’s been a whole year since niche printing press and gallery Tooth & Nail opened its warehouse doors. In celebration, the cats behind this artistic venture are throwing a Tooth & Nail One Year Anniversary Exhibition with all 40 artists who has exhibited there. It’s a good opportunity to check out their slick new space in Adelaide’s heart of the city, too. Opening: Fri Dec 14 from 6pm

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Designer Vox Pop Zac From Bowlcuts When I’m not designing I’m: Songwriting and working on my music career or relaxing with friends. The best part about fashion design is: Being able to create something new and expressive that people can wear like a walking piece of art. I owe my success to: My parents who are involved in retail/ wholesale and my amazing group of supportive friends.

Bowlcuts In almost every other species, the male is always the brightest and most colourful, using their feathers, scales or fur to attract a mate. Translating this biological fact into modern clothing is the philosophy behind Bowlcuts. After buying and modifying secondhand clothing, Zac Kelty realised that there was a market growing for guys who wanted loud, crazy and

extroverted clothing that makes them feel interesting, Kelty ventured into creating his own designs. Bowlcuts designs are “party clothes for the arty bros”, with looserelaxed shirts with a range of flamboyant and bright patterns to make you feel relaxed, outgoing and ready for a party. With the party season just about to kick off with full force, now is the time to acquire a shirt that stands out from a crowd and – in an ideal scenario – use that advantage to attract a mate. Bowlcuts is available exclusive at Realstore, 233 Rundle St or facebook.com/bowlcutsclothing.

My greatest achievement to date is: Actually getting this label up and running after quite a few annoying setbacks! One such setback included my first trip to Indonesia to locate a manufacturer for the label and finding myself visiting several hospitals after near-death fever temperatures!

When I design I’m always: Thinking of designs that will always be a talking piece! I don’t see the point in wearing something everyone has seen before! In the future you can expect me to be: Living interstate or overseas, constantly expanding my label into jackets, jeans, jumpers, more shirts and jewellery (I love rings). If I wasn’t a fashion designer I would be… A professional musician working with wonderful bandmates, songwriting and touring around the world.

If I could collaborate with anyone it would be: Stussy, they have some pretty amazing printed shirts!

Wanted: Street Style Photographer Every day people on the streets are wearing outfits that are as inspiring as they are stylish. Rip It Up Fashion and Attitude Magazine want those people to be in our magazines and need a photographer to find them, snap them and send them in. Your photos will feature in print and online editions of Rip It Up Fashion and you will be sent to all the best parties, events and launches in town to help you suss out the best and fairest (in the literal sense).

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Good photography skills. An ability to shoot both indoors and outdoors. Your own photography equipment. Transport. Willingness to approach people on the streets. Ability to ask questions and record answers.

If you think this is up your alley, send through examples of your photography work to lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au.

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Culture

DVD Reviews

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The Dark Knight Rises

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Magic Mike

The Sapphires

Prolific director (and pseudonymous cinematographer and editor) Steven Soderbergh’s films are typically political (The Informant!), smoothly cool (the Ocean’s trilogy) and/or daring (The Girlfriend Experience), and yet his latest is just dumb. Drawn from star/producer Channing Tatum’s experiences as an exotic dancer, this has him as Mike, an all-round legend who works construction by day and as a male stripper by night, reeling in the cash as he hoofs about in laughably choreographed sequences under the admiring gaze of showpony boss Dallas (Matthew McConaughey). When Mike meets young bludger Adam (Alex Pettyfer) and introduces him to the world of getting-your-gear-off, this sets into motion dodgy events: Adam and Mike bond in high-fiving fashion; Adam becomes a big draw (despite his surly look); Mike goes for Adam’s frowning sister Brooke (Cody Horn in a thankless part); and a druggy subplot’s chucked into the final act when the story runs out. Arthousy egghead Soderbergh often surprises with his choices, and yet this crummy-looking pic is a poser, leaving you wondering what he ever saw in the material, as it’s almost as tacky as Showgirls (Showboys?) but proves in no way as embarrassingly funny. Special features on all editions include more dancing. MDB

Director/bit-player Wayne Blair’s filming of co-scripter Tony Briggs’ play is occasionally clunky, and yet the casting’s so strong that it’s an audience-pleaser anyway. After a sequence set in the Cummeragunja Mission in 1958, we flash forward to 1968, where sisters Gail (Deborah Mailman), Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell) and youngest Diana ( Jessica Mauboy) enter a talent show with renditions of country classics. They don’t win but boozy emcee-cum-talent scout Dave (Chris O’Dowd) is impressed, and in a script convenience that probably stuck out less onstage they convince him to be their manager and, after a name and costume change, a switch to soul music and the addition of cousin Kay (Shari Sebbens), the gang have won themselves a spot entertaining the troops in Vietnam, and soon have camps full of GIs on their feet as they belt out What A Man in the face of much danger. Awkwardly theatrical at times, this nevertheless has a great soundtrack, a sweet turn from O’Dowd, a welcome contrast between the American Civil Rights struggle of the ‘60s and the predicament of Australian Aboriginals, and spirited playing from the gals, with Mailman more than matched by her soul sisters. Extras include featurettes and more. MDB

Roadshow / MA / 105/110 Mins

Hopscotch / PG / 99 Mins

Warners / M / 164 Mins

It’s hard to discuss co-writer/co-producer/ director Christopher Nolan’s capper to his Batman trilogy without giving away plot twists, and yet surely by the time you read this you’ll have already seen this mightily epic, formidably cast, surprisingly subversive blockbuster anyway. It’s been eight years since The Dark Knight and Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is a recluse and no longer turning to his alter-ego since ‘The Batman’ took the rap for crimes committed by Harvey Dent/‘TwoFace’. The faithful Alfred (Michael Caine) worries, but Bruce is eventually forced back into the Batsuit when he meets cat-burglar Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) and again, of course, when fearsome Bane (Tom Hardy) makes his presence felt by kidnapping Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) and committing acts of super-villainy that suggest he’s a monstrously misguided ‘Occupy’ protestor. With Bane stealing the show (even though Hardy talks like Sean Connery trapped in a didgeridoo), Bale’s Batman here seems almost an afterthought at times, and his spiritually-wracked performance is a bit of a bummer at first. But once this 164-minute (!) extravaganza gets going it hardly matters, as it’s pretty much The Ultimate Superhero Movie Ever. The Blu-ray releases includes a doco on the Batmobile and more. MDB

Bookshelf

The Horologicon: A Day’s Jaunt Through The Lost Words Of The English Language Mark Forsyth / Icon / 258pp / $29.99

Forsyth’s Horologicon (book of hours) digs up outmoded, unfashionable, unknown or inappropriate words (and expressions and euphemisms) and applies them, with wry humour, to the events of a standard workday in the life of a contemporary, and fairly jaded, adult. Favourites worth bringing back: ‘snollygoster’ (a dishonest politician); ‘zwodder’ (to laze in bed); ‘blatherskite’ and ‘clanjanderer’ (liars, basically); the highly idiomatic term ‘sprezzatura’ (to appear to be working, or brilliant, in a nonchalant manner); ‘nephelolater’ (an admirer of clouds) and ‘thwankin’ (of the clouds themselves if they’re ominous); ‘quomodocunquizing’ (or, in its Anglicised form, if it ever returns, ‘quomodocunquising’, which applies to the making of money any way possible); and ‘feague’, a forgotten verb that applies to the shoving of eels up a horse’s arse (which, if you do it on a daily basis, suggests that you haven’t got time to read this book anyway). MDB

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Hope Springs

Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are a devoted couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a renowned couples specialist (Steve Carell) in the small town of Great Hope Springs, she attempts to persuade her sceptical husband, a steadfast man of routine, to get on a plane for a week of marriage therapy. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of Hope Springs on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Dec 20.

Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World

Taking audiences on a humorous, moving and intimate journey against an epic backdrop of Earth’s final days, Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World explores what people will do and how they will feel when humanity’s end is near. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Dec 20.

Adelaide Fringe 2013 Stage

The program for Adelaide Fringe 2013, which will commence on Fri Feb 15 and conclude on Sun Mar 17, is now available online with a printed guide to surface early next year. There will a record number of Fringe events which will include over 100 cabaret shows, 32 circus and physical theatre shows, 107 theatre productions, seven film events, 197 concerts of a musical nature, and over two dozen dance performances along with 105 visual art exhibitions. To add to this, there will also be 254 comedy events with international comics such as Fringe favourites Arj Barker and Stephen K Amos taking part. The opening night parade has also been extended for 2013. “Yes, it will now start at Torrens Parade Ground and will start a bit later because it’s all going to be lit from within,” Adelaide Fringe director Greg Clarke says. “All the floats, which people will now be able to see from both sides of the street, will have different types of lighting. So it will be on a bit later and go for longer. “But there won’t be an opening night party as such this year because we are encouraging people to go to one of the many Fringe venues and enjoy a performance. The whole idea is to come out and see the parade and then head off to see something.” Clarke is more than pleased with the diversity of next year’s program. “There’s something for everyone,” he laughs. “There’s some great local stuff and there’s some amazing international shows. It’s high art and low art and everything in

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between.” The Garden Of Unearthly Delights will also return to Rundle Pk with acts such as UK a cappella group The Magnets as well as comedians Wil Anderson and Ruby Wax. “They’ll have some amazing shows and following on from Cantina, a great circus show they put on in 2011, they are now staging another of their own shows in that style called Limbo. So that will be having its world premiere in Adelaide. “I’d also encourage people to check out Tuxedo Cat on North Tce,” Clarke quickly continues, “because they put on some really interesting artists who are creating some really quirky and quite out-there work. And because Tuxedo Cat is in an old building, it’s a completely different experience from going down to The Garden Of Unearthly Delights. And that’s what I love about Adelaide Fringe – the diversity.

“There will also be the return of The Birdcage which was here a couple of years ago with all their circus shows. This time they’ll be situated between Adelaide and Regent arcades as part of Arcade Lane.” Holden Street Theatres at Hindmarsh will again have an array of Fringe events, while The Depot will be a new music venue at the old Franklin St bus depot. “And there will also be another great outdoor venue in Stepney [in the Dunstone Grove Linde Reserve] called Howl The Moon,” Clarke reveals. “And that will have bands such as Brillig, The Yearlings, Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band, Cal Williams Jnr and lots of others.” WHAT: Adelaide Fringe 2013 WHEN: Fri Feb 15 until Sun Mar 17 adelaidefringe.com.au

Your guide to the student experience. As the cruel and unusual punishment of the tertiary education major assessment system draws to a close, so must Fast Times for another year. This year has been a blast bringing you all the info, events and deals for everything related to higher education. I hope that you all have achieved what you set out to this year, and if you didn’t - there’s always next year, right? Well, that is if the world doesn’t end next Friday. It’s been great meeting so many of you along the way, hearing your stories and having your voices included on the page. This year I’ve learnt just how rich Adelaide’s student culture actually is, and look forward to finding out even more in the future. If this year has been the end of your quest for higher education, enjoy that piece of paper that says you are awesome at whatever it is you set out to do. And if you will be dragging out this study thing for at least a little while longer, I look forward to sharing the journey with you in 2013 (apocalypse permitting). If you have an idea for Fast Times or an event you want to get in early with for next year, email lachlanaird@ripitup.com.au, Poke facebook.com/ripitupmag or Tweet @ FastTimesRIU and like all diligent students, we’ll get cracking on it early. See you for O’Week for a few surprises that are already in the works. Peace, Lachie.

NIDA Summer Short Courses

If lazing around watching movies all summer is too depressing because you feel like you should really be a part of the film rather than watching it, then perhaps a NIDA short course will set you further on your journey to the silver screen. NIDA tutors will be in town from Mon Jan 7 to Sun Jan 13 teaching a variety of classes for various age groups and levels of expertise – from beginners to budding Hollywood exports. The courses will teach you specific skills

necessary for all actors to make it, or at the very least, to make it into NIDA down the track. Courses include full day five-day courses from Monday to Friday or weekend courses, both being taught at Scotch College, Torrens Park. If Kristen Stewart can qualify as an actor, then there is hope for us all. For more info on the NIDA Summer Courses visit nida.edu.au or call 02 9697 7626.

OCD Exhibition The final year TAFE SA Tea Tree Gully Advertising & Graphic Design students had their graduate exhibition to show off their hard work to their friends, family and reps from the industry. Titled OCD for the near-neurotic perfectionist tendencies the graduates have for their work, the night saw an array of designs for various products, including alcohol, music, teas and environmentalism. Fast Times chatted with one of the grads, Simone Frances Geary, for her views on design and advertising and what you can expect from her after graduation.

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Hey! Simone Frances Geary 25, Graduate

The best thing I’ve ever designed is: A full set of beer labels that go on the shelves early 2013 for Gulf Brewery up in Hahndorf, SA. But I’ve always wanted to design: For bands, music and also wine labels. My dream job would be: To work on packaging, wine labels, book layout and design for a well-known design studio. The best ad I’ve ever seen is: The BankSA ‘Nothing Boring’ ads on TV by Clemenger BBDO Adelaide. The biggest challenge I’ve faced is: Getting myself out there, noticed and a job. My best study aid is: Music, wine, a note pad. In the future you can expect me to: Be older, and working on amazing designs.

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Anywhere Else EP

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(Mirador)

Holy smokes. Did Adelaide urchins The Aves just take a massive leap forward in their sound or what? Where previously they seemed awkwardly torn as to whether they wanted to be residents at CBGB’s 1977 or the Camden Barfly 2002, Anywhere Else is a seamless graduation from local scrappers to genuine challengers. Recorded in New York after a frugal but fruitful journey to Canada’s North By Northwest showcase festival, Anywhere Else is charged with confidence. Like Debbie Harry fronting The Replacements, there’s a scuzzy elegance to this impressive expansion of The Aves’ sound. With a Big Day Out slot looming, these guys are evolving like an arse-kicking archaeopteryx.

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Villagers Nothing Arrived (Domino)

Reminiscent of a young Chris Martin toying with the lived-in melancholy of Elbow, Ireland’s Villagers pre-empt January’s Awayland with Nothing Arrived. Like an optimistic dog waiting for its dead master to awake, frontman Conor O’Brien sounds upbeat despite the tedium of reality slowly defeating him. Coldplay haven’t had this much doleful passion since Brian Eno came along and sprogged all over their mixing desk.

Gemini Downs Jangle

(Independent)

Channel 10’s reporter Jessica Braithwaite might just be Adelaide’s answer to Taylor Swift - a permanently smiling blonde damsel who’s masterful at multi-tasking. Out the front of cheery locals Gemini Downs, her output’s like a Bird In Hand Sparkling Pinot Noir: refreshingly bubbly for some, a little too sweet for others. Jangle is infused with horns, strangely accented banter and a bright and breezy swing, but overindulging in this lively pop could quickly turn it from awesome to irksome. Still, with a Big Day Out slot ahead in the distance, we need to find her a local Harry Styles.

Sarah Blasko I Awake (UMA)

“Oh here we go,” this critic sighs as Sarah Blasko’s fourth album drifts from the stereo. “Another breathy, 12-step heartbreak fix from Blasko, an artist perennially bequeathed with enthusiastic reviews and habitually spared accusations of tedium.” More fool me. Contrary to initial fears, I Awake’s unfurling tales reveal

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more about this guarded Sydney songwriter than ever before. While sharing a Brighton home with fellow songwriter Whitley, Blasko’s output was apparently upbeat and warm with love. Their relationship dissolution saw these initial writings scrapped and a whole new – possibly chronological, perhaps even conceptual – album recorded upon Blasko’s retreat to Sweden. Emerging three years after As Day Follows Night, I Awake is revealing, plotting Blasko expunging despair and subsequently finding new love. Illusory Light (‘I could see it in your eyes… I knew the days were numbered’) and Fool (‘I’m tired of always being your fool’) pair postrelationship ache with perfectly tempered production. New Country captures the drifting composer in the arms of a handsome foreigner, while the bewitching Here speaks of a thawing winter, like Doris Day crossed with Snow White. Filled with new resolve, Not Yet ends the album with Blasko ‘no longer lost, no longer alone’, yet pangs of mortality still cloud her happiness. Australia’s answer to Bjork? Blasko’s creeping steadily towards such startling heights. Scott McLennan

With emphasis on beats and driving synths over melodies and structure, boring music is becoming something of a sought after commodity these days. It’s refreshing that someone out there is doing something interesting and the pairing of Paris-based singer songwriter Melody Prochet with Tame Impala’s frontman Kevin Parker, for better or worse, is very interesting indeed. Taking a break from Tame’s growing popularity, Parker has hopped behind the producer’s desk to cocreate a brave psychedelic groove record filled with familiar dreamy guitars, bubbling synths and dark edges. Prochet is definitely the creative heart of the album, with her simple melodies and ethereal vocals providing a strong backbone to work around, noticeably on Endless Shore, which adds a catchier pop feel than single Crystallized. However, it’s the abundance of less musical and more atmospheric overdubs that play the biggest part in characterising the album’s relaxed, yet messily detailed, sound. The tail end of the album dips into periods of repetition and false endings, with IsThatWhatYouSaid entirely an exercise in production. The weaker second half is a shame, but if you can look past the occasional moment of over-experimentation you’ll find a lot to enjoy. For Tame Impala fans the record will be validation of Parker’s blooming credits, and for Prochet it’s a sprawling, complex debut proved (almost) limitless in vision and scope. Lucy Campbell

Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger & Zebrahead HQ, Tue Dec 4 Review by Owen Heitmann Pics by Kristy DeLaine

Super Magic Hats Wind

(Independent)

Like Richard D James DJing a carnival ride, Wind finds Melbourne producer Super Magic Hats creating a fairy floss bed of warm electronica reminiscent of Aphex Twin’s most buoyant output. The glitching loops and phasing shows hints of The Chemical Brothers’ Dream On, with the warm and woozy results being a hypnotic treat. Hats off to you, magic man.

50 Cent Feat Eminem & Adam Levine My Life (UMA)

As the Mike Tyson of rap, raking in a fortune hasn’t prevented 50 Cent from consistently acting misogynistic, bumbling and laughably witless. At the height of his acclaim in 2005 the hip hop stooge announced the release of a sex toy created in his ‘image’. Seven years later and with less of a public profile than the Chocolate Rain guy, now this dick’s just screwing himself.

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Zebrahead were the unknown quantity for me on this tour, despite the fact that they’ve been around for 15 years. Their boisterous performance and pop punk/rap hybrid made me regret sleeping on them for so long, and made it easy to forgive the absence of a local support. They put on an impressive show, including having a barman onstage who spent the set making cocktails for the band and lucky audience members. The last time Goldfinger played with Reel Big Fish in Adelaide, ska-punk fans had to choose between them or the Suicide Machines, who were playing on the same night. I opted for the Suicide Machines – which was the right choice, as they split up shortly afterwards, whereas simply by waiting seven years I got another chance to see Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger together. Or at least, Goldfinger frontman John Feldmann and some other guys. A band rift in late November led to the other three members not being included in the tour and a new backing band having six days to learn the songs. On the one hand, it could have been disappointing to be faced with a bunch of ‘ring-ins’ – but on the other

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Grinspoon Black Rabbits (UMA)

Jeff The Brotherhood Hypnotic Nights (Warner)

Lismore’s Grinspoon again prove on their seventh long-player Black Rabbits that there’s still plenty of fire in their belly and that the creative well of ideas is far from dry. Looking at the journey to date, this album is a nod to the future and where the Grinners are likely to potentially take their music, giving them plenty of creative freedom to explore new ideas. The only travesty surrounding Black Rabbits is the fact the tour to support this release was announced far too late to boost awareness of this album. It’s a real shame to consider this album could come and go without the attention it deserves. Passerby is a rocking opener, with the first signs of change in the Grinspoon camp being the drum machine standing out. Final Reward is a great tune, featuring You Am I’s Tim Rogers and The Living End’s Chris Cheney in the chorus adding to the “whoa-ohs” and “yeahs”. There plenty of other great moments including the likes of Emergency, Tightrope and Battleground, which could all quite easily slot in to the Grinspoon live set. Carry On will emerge as a favourite for many, while Full Moon is an interesting departure from the trademark Grinspoon sound. Black Rabbits is a solid and consistent offering from Grinspoon, which begs questions as to where they will go next and whether we’ll see a solo album from frontman Phil Jamieson in the near future. Rob Lyon

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

Rock Art And The X-Ray Style/Global A Go-Go/Streetcore (Hellcat/Epitaph)

There is a circular sticker on the front of the newest Jeff The Brotherhood album that tells whomever may be holding it that Dan Auerbach produced the album. If you’ve never heard of Jeff The Brotherhood, but you know who Dan Auerbach is, you might think that Hypnotic Nights was chock full of bluesy guitar riffs and stadium-echoing choruses. Given the fact that Hypnotic Nights sees Jeff employing more than a three-string guitar and a battered drum kit to weave their tales of wasted youth, Auerbach’s influence is obvious. There are saxophone solos, jaunty piano play and a liberal use of vocal coos that might have long time fans furrowing their brow in confusion. The raw sound of early records may be a fading memory on Hypnotic Nights, but the amps are still cranked to 11 and the similarities to Pinkerton-era Weezer and ‘70s arena rock are still front and centre. While the DIY feel of previous Jeff records has been glossed over, the band’s attitude is still bubbling underneath the surface. This fresh coat of paint makes Hypnotic Nights Jeff The Brotherhood’s most accessible release to date. Ryan Lynch

hand, the opportunity to experience a supergroup consisting of Feldmann, Aaron Barrett from Reel Big Fish on guitar and Mike Herrera from MxPx on bass playing classic songs like Superman and Mable was pretty special. Reel Big Fish’s horn section even came on stage for some songs, including If I’m Not Right. With a bowler hat and bleached white receding hair, Feldmann looked like a wrinkled old man, but he didn’t act like one, leaping about the stage and into the crowd. A Reel Big Fish gig is a dependably fun time. After 20 years together, their shows are as well known for the comic stage banter as for the songs. Since the departure of longtime member Scott Klopfenstein last year, trombonist Dan Regan has taken the role of foil to guitarist and singer Barrett, and the chemistry is good. But what about the songs? They played the expected tracks like Trendy, Beer, She Has A Girlfriend Now, Where Have You Been? and Thank You For Not Moshing. They seemed very apologetic about playing a handful of tracks off their latest album, Candy Coated Fury, in among the old favourites, but to be honest the crowd got into the new material (especially the semi-instrumental Don’t Stop Skankin’) and seemed much more familiar with it than I expected. I had a such a blast that I completely forgot about their biggest hit, Sell Out, so that its appearance in the encore was a genuine surprise... although I can’t say the same for the customary many versions of SR and their signature cover of Take On Me, which ended the show on an uplifting, if familiar, note. It’s safe to say that this night compensated for the gig I missed in 2005.

Raise a toast to Saint Joe Strummer! 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of the former frontman of The Clash, “the only band that matters”, and would also have seen the great man celebrate his 60th birthday. In honour of these two milestones, Hellcat have rereleased his final three albums (with The Mescaleros), expanded and remastered. Rock Art And The X-Ray Style (1999) was a triumphant return to the spotlight after years in the musical wilderness. Familiar reggae (Tony Adams) and folk rock (The Road To Rock ‘N’ Roll) elements seamlessly blend with electronica (Techno D-Day), emphasising Strummer’s eclectic musical tastes. The sprawling Global A Go-Go (2001) incorporates an increased world music influence, notably on scintillating musical mélanges like Bhindi Bhagee and the title track. The album’s back half is a tad bloated though, with a 17-minute take on Thomas Moore’s Minstrel Boy. The posthumously released Streetcore (2003) is perhaps the most accessible of the three albums. Numbers like the lead cut Coma Girl and the driving All In A Day show how The Mescaleros had gelled and were ready to rock. Streetcore ensured Strummer went out of a high. These lovingly packaged reissues each include up to seven bonus tracks, most being live recordings. Owen Heitmann

Various Artists 101 Christmas Songs (EMI)

Assembling 101 Christmassy cuts over four discs, whether they be rocky, poppy, love-songy or novelty, can’t have been easy, and this compilation certainly shows that they plumbed the depths. Consider: genuine yuletide classics (notably Dean Martin’s Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!); misguided attempts at standards (Wayne Newton’s icky Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Sinead O’Connor’s up-herself Silent Night); Aussie tracks your parents might have liked (Rolf Harris’ Six White Boomers); songs that are only about Christmas in a roundabout sort of way (three-hit wonder Jona Lewie’s melancholy Stop The Calvary); outings that don’t seem to fit in anywhere (like Kate Winslet’s oddball What If); and perhaps the greatest Xmas song ever, Fairytale Of New York, here not in The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s wonderfully raucous version but a dull, censored take by KT Tunstall that uses the word ‘braggart’ instead of ‘faggot’. MDB

The Rolling Stones Grrr!

(UMA)

A decade on from the similarly effective career overview 40 Licks, The Rolling Stones celebrate a flabbergasting 50 years of recording with Grrr!. Their artistic transformations of the first decade are shoe-horned onto the first disc; the American jangle of opener Come On is swiftly forgotten as the Glimmer Twins hit their sinister songwriting stride on Paint It Black, Sympathy For The Devil and Gimme Shelter, with the magnificence of As Tears Go By, Angie and Wild Horses adding some light to the darkness. Ronnie Wood arrives in time for the sexy slink of Miss You, treasured ‘80s offering Waiting On A Friend and the voodoo sleaze of mid-‘90s single Love Is Strong. This could be the last time, but at least this monster compilation sees the Stones going out with a big bang. Scott McLennan RIPITUPMAGAZINE//RIPITUP.COM.AU

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Cosmic Storm Returning To The Gov After spending the past few months recording their second album, Cosmic Storm will now unveil eight new tracks to the public at the Gov on Sat Dec 22. They’ll be joined at the show by special guests Lily & The Drum with the first band starting at 8.30pm.

It’s that time of year again, you can feel it in the air - The Honey Pies have released a new album. The local scene should be accustomed to the band releasing to a 12-month cycle by now, with latest album The Motion Picture Soundtrack: Coconuts no exception to the same rule applied on Carpe Carp and Think Of England. Like a new year’s resolution, vocalist Jon Marco has set himself the goal to make sure this will be the case until his creative inspiration deserts him, and he explained to Rip It Up why this was the case ahead of the Coconuts launch this Friday at Jive. “I think I just work better to a deadline. If I don’t have one, then you wouldn’t hear anything. I might hold onto things too long trying to get it perfect, which usually means it never sees the light of day. I think it’s more likely you’ll get sick of something if you

hold on. If you don’t have that deadline you stall. Plenty of great Adelaide bands have an album that is 80 or 90 percent finished and then never gets released at all. “ According to Marco, his pursuit of closeto-perfect and on-schedule has certainly been achieved by Coconuts. He explains that the band choose not to listen to past work until right before going into the studio, where the chance to re-listen will become a prompt to remember what worked and didn’t work in the past. “I think the first album I really liked the songwriting on it, but not as much the way it was recorded. It was all right, but not great. On the second album, I don’t think the songwriting was as strong, but it was sounding great. And this one, I’m happy with both the songs and recording. We’ve ticked both of the boxes this time, and if we feel like each album is getting a little better it’s a confidence booster.” Despite this confidence Marco confides that he was incredibly nervous before

releasing this album online. Two weeks worth of procrastination prior to the Bandcamp release was due, for the most part, to his worry about what close friends’ considered opinions of the music could be. “I think it’s because when I started writing songs, probably for the first four or five years they were kept in my bedroom. Not a single friend or family member would hear one and the idea of playing them for people was really bizarre. I’ve still got a little bit of that to me. I get more nervous about friends and musicians I know listening to it than someone who might see it online and review it. Once it’s out, it’s all right and I won’t worry too much.” WHO: The Honey Pies, The Bon Scotts & Fake Tan WHAT: The Motion Picture Soundtack: Coconuts Launch WHERE: Jive Bar WHEN: Fri Dec 14 from 8pm

The Scarlet Ives Album Launch

The Scarlet Ives have been kicking around for a while now, but they’ve still yet to release a full album – until now. On Sat Dec 29 the band will launch their first fulllength player Dreamer Gypsy Nightmare Pixie at the Crown & Anchor with Danvers & Ghost Knife (pictured) and Menagerie from 8pm. Top stuff.

Hawkai Upon the release of their debut EP, Prey, we chat with vocalist and guitarist Jason Slack of local synth/rock/heavy local outfit Hawkai about their sound and past affiliations with The Superjesus.

Full Moon Folk Returns

Adelaide’s acoustic folk music showcase Full Moon Folk will return this Sat Dec 15 at Queens Theatre in collaboration with Create+Combine. Be charmed underneath fairy lights and candlelit vibes by local artists Kaurna Cronin, Sam Brittain, Thom Lion and Tim Moore from 6pm for $5 entry.

You’ve just released your new EP Prey. Tell us a bit about it. “Prey is the result of countless jams and nights sitting up writing. It’s the best eight tracks cut from around 30 songs that didn’t make the grade from the past two years. We were lucky enough to get it mastered and stem mixed by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia) at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden and we are pretty pleased with the results.” Is there a song on the EP that’s your favourite? “My favourite tune is Invisible Man and its intro, Prey. This song is our flagship tune. It really flows well from one section to the next and the pre-chorus sounds like a chorus. I experimented with a classical intro on this song as Invisible Man is very classically influenced, which is why it has a Muse kind of flavour to it.” Prey seems to have a smorgasbord of genres from synth rock to heavy metal. How would you describe your sounds? “I think you just need to listen and decide for yourself. We always try to put a little twist to our riffs and songs, and we try to avoid that stock sound and mix it up a little. I wouldn’t call us metal, but I wouldn’t call us straight-up rock. We somehow sit in a nice little space between these genres.”

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You used to be the guitarist for The Superjesus. They’re coming back to town for a reunion show – will you go see it or is there bad blood? “Yeah, I’ve known about the reunion for quite a while now, Stu [Rudd, bassist] and I have been chatting a lot in the past few months. There is definitely no bad blood or broken bones with this. Jet Age was their most commercial album so it only seems right to use Tim [Henman, guitarist] for this gig to get the most impact. I had so much fun playing in that band.” Will there be a follow-up album for Prey?

“Most definitely. We already have a handful of fresh songs in the works, and we have plans to hit the major cities in Australia to support this release. Then we’ll be getting back in the studio as soon as we can. I’m going backpacking around Asia with a guitar in a few weeks, so I’ll be writing as much as possible over the next few months.” WHO: Hawkai, Breaking Orbit, Tabula Rasa & Zen Stella WHERE: Enigma WHEN: Fri Dec 14 from 8pm

A Very Format Xmas

Format in the city has the best kind of stocking stuffer this Sat Dec 15 with the ‘A Very Format Xmas’ live music showcase. Featuring Batrider’s Sarah Mary Chadwick as headliner, locals Sparkspitter, Summer Flake, Xixi, Mountain Blood, Santa Claus and more will assemble for a night of cheap drinks and lo-fi tunes. Doors at 8.30pm.