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Your fast guide to this fortnight’s best entertainment

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Hitting Thebarton Theatre on Thu Dec 20 with I Killed The Prom Queen, Northlane and Survival.

Playing their last show for 2012 at Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel from around 4pm on Sun Dec 30 with some very, very special surprise guests.

Catch the two-piece rockers from Melbourne when they play Crown & Anchor on Fri Dec 21 and Glenelg Jetty Bar on Sat Dec 22.

The Illusionists

The Sundance Kids

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Wonder at the magical international magicians at Festival Theatre from Mon Dec 31 until they disappear completely on Sat Jan 12.

Say farewell to the local indie pop rock outfit at their final show on Fri Dec 21 at the Governor Hindmarsh with help from Move To Strike and Chris Panousakis.

Bringing his unique Christmas show from Sydney to Clarence Gardens’ Church Of The Trinity from 7pm on Fri Dec 21 with some surprise guests.

Speeding along this fortnight...

HAWKS OF ALBA – see the local trio at Jive

SUMMADAYZE – taking place at Rymill Pk

MAGIC BONES – see the rockin’ Melbourne

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on the evening of Sat Dec 22, along with The Rules and Sincerely, Grizzly, at their very final show.

on Mon Dec 31 with The Chemical Brothers, Mark Ronson, Kimbra and so many, many more.

act at Grote St’s Hotel Metro along with Horror My Friend on Sat Dec 22.

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04

The building you have been doing has reached the point where it needs to be tidied up and made beautiful. Most of the heavy lifting is over. So, what is it you have been building? Is it a home, a relationship, a creative masterpiece?

Whatever it is, put on the finishing touches.

Taurus 21.04/20.05

The intensity of the last few months is beginning to ease. You are through the most soul-jangling part. It is time to fly out of the fire with more power and insight – in fact with a whole new sense of who you are. The discomfort has been in the service of a greater creativity.

Gemini 21.05/21.06

It might feel like whichever way you push, you are met with resistance. As frustrating as this initially seems, it is your job to turn it around. This collision of forces is potentially a source of great strength. Turn all the contradictions into concord. Grow into the challenge.

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Cancer 22.06/22.07

Libra 23.09/23.10

The moon is fresh and new. She begins her week in Capricorn, inspiring that part of you that is independent and hardy. This resilient bit of your psyche doesn’t get much press but it is there within you in spades. Now you must figure out how to fit it into your relationship/s.

Venus is tying up her business in Scorpio. She has taken you through some challenging times. Now she is checking to see whether you have come out flying. Scorpio suggests there is a part of us that can fly through fire, that feasts on transformation. Drink a toast to that part.

Leo 23.06/22.07

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

The warmth of the inner sun has turned from blazing heat to a more subtle warmth. Let this warmth carry you through, whatever it is you are having to let go of at the moment. Life loves us in ways our egos can’t understand, but our intuition can. Put truth into practice.

Community is not offering excitement, so much as wisdom and sobriety. This is a time for knowing who your good friends are and fully appreciating their perception and support. For the rest, the journey is quite introspective.

Digest the lessons love has been giving.

Virgo 23.08/22.09

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12

Life is lining up in such a way that you could easily read it as obstacle ridden.

It’s not. Your strength and wisdom is being invited into the play, that’s for sure. If you can step back a little and consider the over-view, you will find a chuckle inside that makes it all make sense.

The planets are lined up in such a way that your mind is forced to come to a grinding halt. This is a good thing.

Life is asking that you check your assumptions, reconsider all that you think you know and be humble enough to return to ‘beginners mind’. Refresh your perception.

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With Pluto, Mars and the moon in your company, you’re blessed by plenty of drive and feeling. The moon is new and only in your whereabouts for a few days.

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Aquarius 20.01/18.02

Trust your perception. Watch that all that others are saying doesn’t get in the way. As long as you remain fresh and original, you are alright. The moment you veil your eyes with borrowed knowledge, the plot gets lost. Your gut has a perfect handle on truth. Trust it.

Pisces 19.02/20.03

There’s a planetary traffic jam happening on your side of the universe.

It is going to require all your wisdom to navigate it. When in the midst of a logjam, one has to stop, look and identify the one log that is causing all the ruckus. Shift that one and the rest are released.

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Stranger Danger Clubfeet Garden Wonders The best of the Colombian National circus school’s wild acrobatics for Circolumbia, an exquisitely macabre contemporary circus journey into an imaginary neo-vaudevillian sideshow era with The Candy Butchers and the company behind Cantina and Tom Tom Crew performing Limbo – that’s just the start of the Garden Of Unearthly

Delights’ just-released program. Then there’s new work by Frank Woodley and Simon Yates, performing their two-hander, Inside, Melbourne Fringe Award winners Pants Down Circus, Wil Anderson, Tom Thum, Heath Franklin’s Chopper, Sam Simmons (pictured), The Magnets, Tom Gleeson, Abandoman, Tex Perkins, Renee Geyer, East End Cabaret, Craig Hill, Mickey D, Smart Casual and many more. Tickets are on sale now at gardenofunearthlydelights.com.au.

You shouldn’t talk to strangers, but you can dance to them. Sydney blue collar bad arses Strangers play fresh Aussie rock with rollicking riffs that get the band compared to Kyuss and The Bronx. Catch them playing their debut album Persona Non Grata on Thu Feb 7 at the Ed Castle with The Dead Love and The Pretty Littles. Tickets: oztix.com.au.

Nice chaps, Clubfeet. Too bad the cover of their second album Heirs And Graces featured too much boob for Facebook’s liking. A little bit of pixellation later and all that social media terms of use stuff is sorted, so now they can get on with the business of touring their synth pop. Hailing from Melbourne, via Cape Town, Clubfeet enjoyed sweet reviews of their debut album Gold On Gold in 2010, which Pitchfork called “instantly charming” and NME and Spin gave the thumbs up. Now it’s time for their second album of accessible pop, played at the Ed Castle on Fri Mar 1 with Collarbones, visuals by Ego and special guests. Tickets: moshtix.com.au.

Songs For The Def Earnestly Yours The Stillsons’ blend of bluegrass and folk has enjoyed some international love over the past year, with their second album Earnest played on Radio NZ and BBC Radio 2.

Closer to home, Earnest was named Radio Adelaide, ABC Radio Australia and The Sydney Morning Herald’s album of the week. They’re playing a string of dates in Adelaide over Christmas, at the Grace Emily on Thu Dec 20, the Wheatsheaf on Sat Dec 22 and La Mar Sundays at Glenelg Surf Club on Sun Dec 23.

More than 20 years after they formed, Deftones are still forging through uncharted territory in alternative metal. Their latest album Koi No Yokan has been described as “a shotgun blast of cranked guitar, bruising hardcore and canyon-sized choruses”

by NME and “fucking great” by Absolute Punk. Brace yourself as they play HQ with letlive on Sun May 19.

Tickets: oztix.com.au and venuetix.com.au.

Demonic scarecrow ROSS NOBLE is back with a new show to top off your festival season, talking nonsense for a bit at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Sat Mar 16. Tickets: ticketek.com.au.

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Top 10 Albums Of The Year 1. Nas – Life Is Good (Def Jam/Universal) 2. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (Def Jam/ Universal) 3. Hilltop Hoods – Drinking From The Sun (Golden Era) 4. Santigold – Master Of My Make-Believe (Warner) 5. The Weeknd – Trilogy (Universal) 6. Quakers – Quakers (Stones Throw/Fuse) 7. The Presets – Pacifica (Modular/Universal) 8. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die (Universal) 9. The Heavy – The Glorious Dead (Ninja Tune) 10. Dialect & Despair – Self Evident (Uknowho/Obese)

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Sticking to a wearyingly formulaic routine that even the cast of Two Broke Girls would baulk at, 2012’s final issue of Rip It Up features bite-

sized revisions of stuff you couldn’t be bothered reading the first time around, annual picks from writers who you loathe and a shipload of old guff that should have never seen the light of day. Like a reheated ‘deluxe’ version of Pink Friday or Teenage Dream, we’re hoping no one notices the tat that passes for new product these days. Huzzah!

So here we are at the A Very Brady Christmas end of 2012, with another year discarded like Rihanna’s sensible clothes, torn up and thrown away like Billie Joe Armstrong’s sobriety and done and dusted like an Austereo career. Rip It Up trusts your Christmas and New Year will be filled with Olympic levels of shenanigans – perhaps minus the multiple ropey Jessie J appearances. We’ll see you back here for another head-spinning, boweltwisting, knee-trembling entertainment extravaganza in 2013, yes?

Best Gig 1. KRS-One, HQ 2. Rap City, HQ 3. The Pharcyde, Fowler’s Live

Best Film 1. The Dark Knight Rises 2. The Avengers 3. Prometheus

Best Festival Adelaide Fringe.

Highlight Of The Year Seeing KRS-One twice and interviewing him in person for three hours.

Your Wish For 2013?

Taylor Swift

More people actually going to shows so touring artists would stop skipping Adelaide.

“There’s no way I’d ever turn Sesame Street down. They’ve never approached me, though I would do it and I love kids.”

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Scott McLennan Top 10 Albums Of The Year

Best Film 1. The Dark Knight Rises 2. Skyfall 3. Wreck-It Ralph

1. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die (Paradise Edition) (UMA) 2. Cat Power – Sun (Remote Control) 3. Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day (Warner) 4. Taylor Swift – Red (UMA) 5. The Killers – Battle Born (UMA) 6. Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania (Create Control) 7. Metric – Synthetica (Create Control) 8. Santigold – Master Of My Make-Believe (Warner) 9. Regina Spektor – What We Saw From The Cheap Seats (Warner) 10. Marina & The Diamonds – Electra Heart (Warner)

Best Festival

Best Gig

Bruce Springsteen’s Hanging Rock set-list blows away, leaving it up to some grinning dickwit up the front (ie me) to scribble out a replacement featuring lost classics such as Roulette, Downbound Train, Doll’s House and Brilliant Disguise.

1. Radiohead, Rod Laver Arena 2. Lana Del Rey, Palace Theatre 3. Regina Spektor, Entertainment Centre Theatre

Parkway Drive

He calls his musical taste bish’. ‘eclectic’. We call it ‘girlie rub

Robyn at Parklife, Chic at WOMADelaide.

Highlight Of The Year Coming across Lana Del Rey in a dark Melbourne alley. Not like that, you perverts.

Disappointment Of The Year Dough-faced Tom Ballard desecrating Triple J with another year of abysmal interviews and grossly egotistical yabbering.

It’s like watching your favourite sister being defiled by a meth-head boyfriend.

Your Wish For 2013

8. Fear Factory – Industrialist (Roadrunner) 9. Linkin Park – Living Things (Warner) 10. The Ghost Inside – Get What You Give (Epitaph)

Best Gig 1. Steel Panther, Thebarton Theatre 2. Buried In Verona, Fowler’s Live 3. The Beards, Uni Bar

Best Film

Michael Wickham

1. The Avengers 2. Prometheus 3. The Amazing Spider-Man

Still attempting to make broomball Soundwave’s official sport.

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Top 10 Albums Of The Year

Highlight Of The Year

1. Buried In Verona – Notorious (UNFD) 2. While She Sleeps – This Is The Six (Search & Destroy) 3. Parkway Drive – Atlas (Epitaph) 4. Lamb Of God – Resolution (Roadrunner) 5. Stone Sour – House Of Gold And Bones (Roadrunner) 6. Serj Tankian – Hari Kari (Reprise) 7. The Amity Affliction – Chasing Ghosts (Roadrunner)

Soundwave.

Seeing System Of A Down one last time at Soundwave, let alone Limp Bizkit and Slipknot as well.

Disappointment Of The Year The Adelaide Crows in the finals.

Your Wish For 2013?

Kurt Tippett is horribly injured.

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Miranda Freeman Laughs in the face of deadlines like a hipster watching Portlandia.

“I’m spending two weeks back in Hamilton, New Zealand with the family, so I’m very excited. It’s just before we kick off into this round of Summadayze festivals, so it’s going to be great to hang around the familiarity and stability that is Hamilton.”

Top 10 Albums Of The Year Grimes

1. Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular) 2. Grimes – Visions (4AD) 3. Father John Misty – Fear Fun (Sub Pop) 4. Flume – Flume (Future Classic) 5. Cat Power – Sun (Matador) 6. Azealia Banks – 1991 EP (Polydor/ Interscope) 7. Kindness – World, You Need A Change Of Mind (Polydor) 8. Grizzly Bear – Shields (Warp Records) 9. Chromatics – Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better) 10. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (Def Jam)

1. Chairlift – Something (Sony) 2. Grimes – Visions (4AD) 3. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (Def Jam/ Universal) 4. Alpine – A Is For Alpine (Ivy League) 5. Maya Jane Coles – DJ Kicks (!K7) 6. Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular/UMA) 7. Chromatics - Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better) 8. Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes (Warp) 9. Cat Power – Sun (Matador) 10. Ben Folds Five - The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind (Sony)

1. Radiohead, Sydney Entertainment Centre 2. Prince, Rod Laver Arena 3. PJ Harvey, MONA FOMA

Best Film

1. Moonrise Kingdom 2. The Hunger Games 3. The Avengers Splendour In The Grass.

Highlight Of The Year Interviewing Flume backstage at Parklife while his arm was in a sling while my arm was in a bandage from a kettle burn.

Musicians and journalists lack motor skills.

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Top 10 Albums Of The Year

Best Gig

Best Festival

Suzanne Karagiannis

Disappointment Of The Year The permanent closure of Charlie’s Shack in the markets. Used to be the best Vietnamese pho in town!

Your Wish For 2013 My driver’s licence. Just jokes, like that’ll ever happen….

Best Gig 1. SBTRKT, Laneway 2. Prince, Rod Laver Arena 3. Holy Ghost!, Future Music Festival

Best Festival Laneway.

Highlight Of The Year Swimming with giant sea turtles in Indonesia.

Oh, and Barrio.

Disappointment Of The Year Missing Chic at WOMADelaide.

Your Wish For 2013 Travel.

“I have a few vinyl copies of our albums Tu Plang and Unit squirreled away somewhere. I hear they are quite expensive! That’s my retirement plan!”

Quan Yeomans, Regurgitator, Issue 1208

Michelle Read

Lachlan Aird

Likes: polished wooden floors.

Dislikes: Ethan Kath being a douchebag.

Rip It Up’s sartorial answer to Kellan Lutz.

Top 10 Albums Of The Year

Top 10 Albums Of The Year

Frank Ocean

1. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (Def Jam) 2. Killer Mike - RAP Music (Williams Street) 3. Santigold - Master Of My Make-Believe (Warner) 4. Actress - RIP (Honest Jon’s) 5. Hot Chip – In Our Heads (Domino) 6. Jessie Ware - Devotion (PMR/Island) 7. Tame Impala - Lonerism (Modular) 8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - ‘Allelujah!

Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation) 9. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe (XL) 10. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die (UMA)

1. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die (Paradise Edition) (Interscope) 2. Santigold – Master Of My Make-Believe (Atlantic) 3. Alpine – A Is For Alpine (Ivy League) 4. Metric – Synthetica (Create Control) 5. Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man (Parlophone) 6. The Rubens – The Rubens (Ivy League) 7. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (Def Jam) 8. Chairlift – Something (Sony) 9. Grimes – Visions (4AD) 10. Friends – Manifest! (Lucky Number)

Best Gig

Best Gig

1. Bon Iver, Thebarton Theatre 2. Radiohead, Brisbane Entertainment Centre 3. Hilltop Hoods, Adelaide Entertainment Centre

1. Robyn, Parklife 2. Michael Rother (Kraftwerk), Barrio 3. Sigur Ros, Thebarton Theatre

Disappointment Of The Year Best Film Realising Slash’s relationship tips only work if 1. Skyfall you’re Slash.

2. Argo

3. Looper Your Wish For 2013

To get some sleep.

Best Festival

Kevin Parker, Tame Impala, Issue 1208

Best Film

Highlight Of The Year

1. The Cabin In the Woods 2. Moonrise Kingdom 3. Ted

Disappointment Of The Year

Best Festival

Parklife.

“Aw, Jay, you motherfucker! I can’t believe I let you contribute one riff to the album and it’s a total knock-off of Pink Floyd!”

Spin Off.

Highlight Of The Year Asking Slash for relationship tips.

Obtaining a desk, chair and computer.

No Doubt ruining No Doubt.

Your Wish For 2013 Karen O gifting me one of her capes on stage at the Big Day Out.

Sarah Blasko Christmas Plans piece with a friend of mine [Nick Wales], so there’s lots to do and I won’t have much of a break. I might have to look into the Olivia NewtonJohn and John Travolta Christmas album [This Christmas] though – I had no idea it was coming out.”

“There are definitely people out there who insist Neil Gaiman and I are evil conspiracy Scientology freaks trying to extort everyone’s money and take over the world.”

Alpine

“My family is a bit all over the place this year but I get to see my sister and her family a few days before Christmas and then spend Christmas Day with my dad. I’ll be working between Christmas and New Year on a Sydney Dance Company

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Scottie’s Best Singles Of 2012

Punk’s Michael Cera.

Top 10 Albums Of The Year

Adele Skyfall (Remote Control/XL)

Frank Turner

1. Make Do & Mend – Everything You Ever Loved (Rise Records) 2. The Menzingers – On The Impossible Past (Epitaph/Warner) 3. Such Gold – Misadventures (Razor & Tie) 4. Handguns – Angst (Pure Noise Records) 5. Pennywise – All Or Nothing (Epitaph/ Warner) 6. All Time Low – Don’t Panic (Hopeless Records) 7. The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten (Mercury/Universal) 8. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball (Columbia) 9. Lucero – Women And Work (ATO Records/ Shock) 10. King Cannons – The Brightest Light (EMI)

Faithful to the stirring Bond formula, Skyfall stood tall alongside the best Bond tunes and was even more of a head-spinning crush than GoldenEye’s Xenia Onatopp. Nobody does it better.

Lana Del Rey Born To Die

Best Festival

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Adelaide Festival.

If Lana Del Rey was a fragrance, it would probably be called Deadly Delinquent. Born To Die arrived early in the year with the New York gal smelling like danger.

Puissant.

Best Gig

“Any smart bloke knows to come to one of my shows because there’s millions of chicks there.”

Reece Mastin, Issue 1216

Highlight Of The Year 1. The Specials, Thebarton Theatre Gina. Oh gosh.

2. The Toasters, Enigma Bar 3. Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Fowler’s Disappointment Of The Year Live Never enough time to do everything!

Best Film 1. Piranha 3DD 2. The Cabin In The Woods 3. The Avengers

Your Wish For 2013

Katy Perry

Early retirement to live as an independently wealthy man of leisure.

Part Of Me (EMI)

When it comes to cold and bitter, even a lemonflavoured Eskimo didn’t come close. The California Gurl went on a brutal, ball-busting rampage on this post-Russell Brand hit. Ouch.

The Killers Runaways (UMA)

Runaways takes The Killers back to a 1984 roadside bar, where a shiny quarter punched into the jukebox bought you a triple play of Asia’s Heat Of The Moment, Cheap Trick’s Dream Police and The Cars’ Tonight She Comes. Just what I needed.

Blur Under The Westway (EMI)

For Britpop followers, Damon Albarn’s nostalgia for a grim and grimey past coupled with Graham Coxon’s wistful, sighing backing vocals made for a reunion as intensely emotional as Germany’s 1990 reunification.

Cat Power Cherokee (Remote Control)

After more breakdowns than a neglected 1981 Mitsubishi Sigma, Cat Power’s return proved an alluring return by the pretty pussy. Cherokee bode well for an Indian summer.

Icona Pop I Love It (Warner/Big Beat)

I Love It’s lyrics found Swedish duo Icona Pop sculpting a crash and burn car wreck into a perfect slice of jubilant bratty pop hedonism. Smashing.

Snakadaktal Dance Bear (I Owe You)

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Mumford & Sons

Sharni Honor The fun and folky flower child.

Top 10 Albums Of The Year 1. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Here (Vagrant) 2. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave (Pias) 3. Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular/ UMA) 4. Mumford & Sons – Babel (UMA) 5. Ben Howard – Burgh Island EP (Island) 6. The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone) 7. James Vincent McMorrow – Early In The Morning (Vagrant)

8. Of Monsters & Men – My Head Is An Animal (UMA) 9. The XX – Coexist (Remote Control) 10. First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar (Shock)

Best Gig 1. Bon Iver, Thebarton Theatre 2. Passenger, Fowler’s Live 3. Mumford & Sons, AEC Theatre

Best Film 1. Big Easy Express 2. The Sapphires 3. Finding Nemo 3D

Best Festival WOMADelaide, baby!

Highlight Of The Year Barack Obama slow jamming the news. Yes.

“David Bowie is a surprisingly casual, easy-going guy. He would stand around and talk to you for half an hour in jeans and a T-shirt.”

Disappointment Of The Year

Paul Dempsey, Something For Kate, Issue 1207

That Stereosonic is officially Australia’s biggest festival. Disappointment of existence. C’mon - where’s the folk at?

Your Wish For 2013?

For Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) to personally make me a sandwich. It could happen.

Celebrity Deaths 2012.

The icons who just couldn’t wait for the Mayan apocalypse.

January

July

Etta James (singer)

Jon Lord (musician)

Etta, the devil you know.

Turned a deep purple.

February

August

Whitney Houston (singer)

Tony Scott (Hollywood supremo)

Waiting to inhale.

Director’s cut.

Davy Jones (singer)

Neil Armstrong (moonwalker)

Stuffed Monkee.

Dead airspace.

March

September

Ian Turpie (game show host)

Hal David (songwriter)

Lower. Lower.

Lower.

Armageddon outta here.

Dick Clark (television host)

November

May Robin Gibb (singer) London Colon Disaster 2012.

Adam Yauch (MC) Ill communication.

Vidal Sassoon (hair expert) He’s seen better condition.

Donna Summer (singer) Death to disco.

June Ray Bradbury (author) Cremated at Fahrenheit 451.

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April

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Larry Hagman (actor) Who killed JR?

Bryce Courtenay (writer) Tales from the crypt.

December Dave Brubeck (jazz innovator) De-composing.

Ravi Shankar (sitar genius) De-tuned.

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Slicing and dicing overhyped fakers like a Connecticut samurai.

The Punch Brothers

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival.

Highlight Of The Year

1. God Bless America

1. Twin Shadow – Confess (4AD/Remote Control) 2. Chromatics – Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better) 3. Bear In Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool (Inertia) 4. Dr Dog – Be The Void (Anti-) 5. Crystal Castles – III (Fiction) 6. Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits (EMI) 7. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp ( Jagjaguwar) 8. Alex Winston – King Con (Co Op) 9. The Tallest Man On Earth – There’s No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans) 10. The Walkmen – Heaven (Inertia)

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Robert Dunstan Unanimously voted Adelaide’s finest purveyor of bad puns since 1982.

Top 10 Albums Of The Year

Best Gig 1. Even, Hotel Metro 2. The Selecter, Governor Hindmarsh 3. Nick Lowe, Norwood Concert Hall

Best Film

WOMADelaide.

Highlight Of The Year Deep South at the Governor Hindmarsh.

Disappointment Of The Year Discovering that most Christmas tree lights are now operated via a USB device and that batteries are not included.

Your Wish For 2013?

Heading back to the country of my birth, the United States, and hearing all of the shitty pop songs Nova was playing six months ago.

Disappointment Of The Year Mirage Rock by Band Of Horses. More like Band Of Horseshit.

Your Wish For 2013?

Get paid enough for writing so I can quit my day job.

Aside from some stellar performances at Laneway and Big Day Out, nothing really stood out.

Crystal Castles

1. Suzannah Espie – Sea Of Lights (Independent) 2. Bob Dylan – Tempest (Sony) 3. Punch Brothers – Who’s Feeling Young Now? (Nonesuch) 4. Jim Keays – Dirty, Dirty (Shock) 5. Stephen Cummings – Reverse Psychology (Head) 6. Kutcha – Black And Blue (Independent) 7. Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos – Love Your Crooked Neighbour With Your Crooked Heart (Silver Stamp Records) 8. Various Artists – Lawless Soundtrack (Sony) 9. Lisa Miller – Meet The Misses (Independent) 10. Various Artists – {preloved folk} (Independent)

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Top 10 Albums Of The Year

Best Film 1. Prometheus 2. The Dark Knight Rises 3. Moonrise Kingdom

Whirled peas (again) and a complete cure for cancer.

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Best Gig

Highlight Of The Year

1. Bon Iver, Thebarton Theatre 2. Sigur Rós, Thebarton Theatre 3. Charles Bradley, Barrio

Radiohead’s mind-blowing return to Australia. What a show.

Best Festival With the decline of the Big Day Out in 2012, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival powered on, with great surroundings, impeccable music and no dickheads.

Disappointment Of The Year Australian politics – a continual race to the bottom.

Your Wish For 2013?

That we’re all still here.

Radiohead

Sigur Ros

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Luke Balzan Heaven is a weekend at WOMADelaide.

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Mat McHugh, The Beautiful Girls, Issue 1197 Best Gig 1. Russell Brand, Adelaide Entertainment Centre 2. The Darkness, Thebarton Theatre 3. Steel Panther, Thebarton Theatre

Peter Lanyon

Best Film 1. Skyfall 2. The Expendables 2 3. The Dark Knight Rises

Already ironing his sleeveless stonewash denim jacket in preparation for KISS at Clipsal 2013.

Best Festival

Top 10 Albums Of The Year

Soundwave.

1. KISS – Monster (UMA) 2. Van Halen – A Different Kind Of Truth (UMA) 3. The Darkness – Hot Cakes (Liberator Music) 4. Cherri Bomb – This Is The End Of Control (Hollywood Records) 5. Dokken – Broken Bones (Frontiers Records) 6. The Cult – Choice Of Weapon (Cooking Vinyl) 7. Aerosmith – Music From Another Dimension (Sony) 8. Richie Sambora – Aftermath Of The Lowdown (Aggressive Music) 9. Europe – Bag Of Bones (ear-music) 10. Gotthard – Firebirth (Nuclear Blast)

Highlight Of The Year

Best Gig

Disappointment Of The Year

Best Film

Krypton Discs at Glenelg closing their doors for the last time - sad days in Adelaide for a music head.

1. The Dark Knight Rises 2. Where Do We Go Now? 3. Looper

Your Wish For 2013

Best Festival

Billy Idol finally makes good and delivers his long awaited follow up to 2005’s Devil’s Playground, backing it up with an Aussie tour and maybe the chance of an interview.

WOMADelaide (of course!).

1. The Tea Party, Thebarton Theatre 2. Bustamento, The Governor Hindmarsh 3. Xavier Rudd, Thebarton Theatre

Highlight Of The Year

Metric

Speaks fluent vampire, wizard and nerd.

1. The Black Keys, Adelaide Entertainment Centre 2. Arctic Monkeys, Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre 3. Hanson, HQ

1. Graham Coxon – A + E (Parlophone) 2. The Flaming Lips – Heady Fwends (Warner) 3. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas (Columbia) 4. Pond – Beard Wives and Denim (Modular) 5. Chairlift – Something (Columbia) 6. Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular Records) 7. Brian Jonestown Massacre – Aufheben (A Recordings Ltd) 8. Grizzly Bear – Shields (Warp) 9. Dirty Three – Toward the Low Sun (Bella Union) 10. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Melody’s Echo Chamber (Fat Possum)

Best Gig 1. Radiohead, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 2. The Flaming Lips, Younge & Dundas Square, Toronto 3. The Sadies, The Horseshoe, Toronto

Best Film 1. Beasts Of The Southern Wild 2. The Master 3. Taken 2

Best Festival NXNE Toronto.

Disappointment Of The Year

Highlight And Disappointment Of The Year

Getting my lines crossed about the date of Soundwave, then double-booking myself for the real date and missing what sounded like a killer metal fest!

Your Wish For 2013

I had a great croissant in early September, but I can’t remember where I bought it.

More perfect croissants.

Best Film 1. The Avengers 2. The Dark Knight Rises 3. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Best Festival Soundwave.

Highlight Of The Year Supanova Pop Culture Expo. Not music related, but I don’t care. It was nerdalicous.

Disappointment Of The Year Mumford & Sons second album, Babel, was a whole lot of babble.

Your Wish For 2013?

For Manchester Orchestra to come to Adelaide.

Like, seriously. Please.

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Managing to swing a work trip around dates to finally catch Manu Chao live in action somewhere in South America!

“Let’s not over-dramatise this: I wasn’t doing heroin or anything, I was just being a bit loose and gross. It’s not the ‘50s and I’m not Jack Kerouac.”

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The Louis Theroux of indie interviewers.

Rob Lyon The stone-faced character standing in the shadows of every gig you’ve ever been to. Knows more about Tim Rogers than Tim Rogers.

Something For Kate

Best Gig

Finally graduating from my PhD after an eternity of waiting, and having everyone address me as Doctor Luke!

Lucy Campbell

Your Wish For 2013?

Top 10 Albums Of The Year 1. Silversun Pickups - Neck Of The Woods (Dangerbird) 2. Metric - Synthetica (Create Control) 3. Fun - Some Nights (Fueled By Ramen) 4. Tame Impala - Lonerism (Modular Recordings) 5. Fairchild Republic - Wish Upon A Paper Crane (Footstomp Music) 6. Bloc Party - Four (Wichita Recordings) 7. Best Coast - The Only Place (Mexican Summer) 8. Imagine Dragons - Night Visions (Interscope) 9. Of Monsters & Men - My Head Is An Animal (Universal) 10. Passion Pit - Gossamer (Columbia)

1. Bustamento – Intrepid Adventures To The Lost Riddim Islands (Transmitter/Vitamin) 2. The Darkness – Hot Cakes (Canary Dwarf Records) 3. Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Big Moon Ritual (Silver Arrow/Warner) 4. Easy Star All-Stars – Easy Star’s Thrillah (Easy Star/The Planet Company) 5. Xavier Rudd – Spirit Bird (Universal/Salt X) 6. Amadou & Mariam – Folila (Because Music/Warner) 7. Rodrigo y Gabriela & CUBA – Area 52 (Ruby Works/Warner) 8. The Loving Tongue – Temple Of Love (Killer Metal) 9. Kingfisha – Kingfisha (Vitamin) 10. Soundgarden – King Animal (Republic/ Universal)

Van Halen’s newie, A Different Kind Of Truth, living up to the massive levels of hype and delivering a rocking album worthy of the iconic band’s ‘70s hey day.

Karina Carroll

Melody’s Echo Chamber

KISS

“A stripper came over and literally just bent down and squirted breast milk out of her breast and onto my face. I ran into the bathroom, washed it off, basically ran straight home and pretty much cried myself to sleep.”

Top 10 Albums Of The Year 1. Muse - The 2nd Law (Warner) 2. Something For Kate - Leave Your Soul To Science (EMI) 3. King Cannons - The Brightest Light (EMI) 4. Tim Rogers - Rogers Sings Rogerstein (UMA/ABC) 5. The Mark Of Cain - Songs Of The Third And Fifth (Fuse) 6. Slash - Apocalyptic Love (Sony) 7. Jack White – Blunderbuss (Sony) 8. Silversun Pickups - Neck Of The Woods (Dangerbird) 9. Tame Impala – Lonerism (Modular/ UMA) 10. The Dandy Warhols - This Machine (Beat The World)

Best Gig 1. Steel Panther, Thebarton Theatre 2. Slash, Thebarton Theatre 3. The Darkness, Thebarton Theatre

Best Festival Soundwave.

Highlight Of The Year Harvest sideshows - what a week!

Disappointment Of The Year The Black Keys at the Entertainment Centre - typical American band coming to our town playing a half-arsed set and failing to step up and wow an arena-sized crowd.

Your Wish For 2013 International bands who say they’re touring Australia don’t call it an Australian tour if they ain’t playin’ Adelaide. Unless they made a mistake at Federation, Adelaide is part of Australia.

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Anton Newcombe, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Issue 1188

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Drunk Mums (Gaga Digi)

Sarah Blasko I Awake (UMA)

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US acts

Drunk Mums

The nips are getting bigger.

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“We’re told we need to compete with Asia, yet we’re creating a whole generation of retards.�

The albums where style went out the window and taste was shown the door‌

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Female acts

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A thumbnail dipped in tar?

Maroon 5 Overexposed (UMA)

The Cunningham’s Warehouse version of Adventure Time.

Blood On The Dance Floor

Anthem Of The Outcast (Shock)

Halloweeners.

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Warrior (Sony)

Someone dipped the jelly babies in LSD.

John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John This Christmas (UMA)

The pussy wagon broke down.

Kirin J Callinan

W II W (Remote Control)

Getting naked for some pussy action: you’re doing it wrong.

Zedd Clarity (UMA)

Magna-Doodle: you’re doing it wrong.

Christina Aguilera Lotus (Sony)

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The poor man’s Garbage Gang.

Cee Lo Magic Moment (Warner)

You cotton-headed ninny-muggins!

The Ting Tings Sounds From Nowheresville (Sony)

Boner jams.

Best And Worst Films of 2012.

This Must Be The Place

Best

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Mad Dog Bradley’s Picks.

1. This Must Be The Place 2. A Royal Affair 3. Moonrise Kingdom 4. The Artist 5. The Cabin In The Woods 6. On The Road 7. The Sessions 8. Seven Psychopaths 9. Skyfall 10. Mental

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1. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower 2. Argo 3. The Avengers

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4. The Hunger Games 5. The Dark Knight Rises 6. The Master

7. Seven Psychopaths 8. Moonrise Kingdom 9. The Artist 10. The Intouchables

Worst

That’s My Boy

Battleship

1. Bad Karma 2. Battleship 3. The Devil Inside 4. Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance 5. One For The Money 6. Prometheus 7. Shame 8. Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business 9. That’s My Boy 10. This Means War

1. That’s My Boy 2. The Dictator 3. The Three Stooges 4. The Campaign 5. Dark Shadows 6. Wrath Of The Titans 7. Shame 8. Young Adult 9. Act Of Valour 10. Snow White And The Huntsman

Rip It Up Photographers’ Pics Of 2012.

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Andre Castellucci

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Justice

“Let’s face it, taking photos of DJs is boring.

Especially the kind who only play Serato or from a tiny USB stick. While getting my mind blown watching Tame Impala from the pit at Parklife I noticed two familiar looking French DJs who play under the moniker Justice. They too seemed mesmerised by the Australian band, so I managed to get a couple of sneaky photos of them. I thought that was more interesting than watching them mix…”

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Andreas Heuer Kate Miller-Heidke

“Photographing Kate Miller-Heidke was an absolute pleasure. She’s a natural in front of the camera and a truly delightful person with an edge of quirkiness. For me, this photograph personifies her perfectly.”

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Kristy DeLaine Florence & The Machine

“A big arena stage show apparently calls for a flashy Batman-styled cape from the leading lady. It looked cool and it was great to be close enough to hear the ‘whoosh’ of the cape movement while the 8000 strong crowd cheered her on.”

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Benon Koebsch Deep Sea Arcade

“Opening for Dappled Cities at the Governor Hindmarsh I watched as Deep Sea Arcade went through an incredible set. No one was paying attention, no other photogs were shooting them. I was so blown away by their set I shot the last song and managed to get this keeper. I think it showcases their complex sound nicely.”

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Find more interviews, tours and reviews online at ripitup.com.au

Incoming

Sam Paul No stranger to the Oz hip hop culture, producer, promoter, MC and radio host of The Sample, Sam Paul, has performed with some of the best artists in the country, including Reason, Chance Waters, NJE and Mase & Mattic just to name a few. In his production work, he has collaborated with artists such as Okwerdz and has done remixes for Vents, Reason and the Hilltop Hoods. In 2013 Sam Paul releases his new album Read Between The Rhymes, taking on production duties on most of the beats with some help from Ciecmate (Broken Tooth Entertainment) and Debris (Takeaway Studios/Hilltop Hoods), and is getting ready to launch his first single The Vibe. “Lyrically, it’s about finding hip hop as a kid, growing up loving it like a close friend, and paying respect to artists who have paved the way – Debris, Reason and Def Wish Cast,” he says. Catch Sam Paul at Enigma Bar on Sat Dec 22 with NJE, DJ Riley, Nhostic, Rock With Korshun, Classic Example, Eskatology and Phat MC. Sam Paul launches The Vibe at Enigma Bar on Sat Dec 22.

Luke Slater

Q+A With Mathew Jonson

Luke Slater is bringing his Planetary Assault Systems live show as he tours Australia for the first time under the PAS guise. Since the early ‘90s he’s been at the forefront of the UK electronic music scene with a string of brilliant releases under guises including Clementine, 7th Plain and Planetary Assault Systems, and in 1996 his remix of Joey Beltram’s Forklift quickly became an underground anthem which was huge in the Adelaide techno scene for many years. Slater dropped his groundbreaking album Freek Funk after signing to Novamute in 1997, this and his follow-up 1999 album Wireless were both released to critical acclaim, . In 2009 Slater burst back onto the scene as PAS with his Temporary Suspension album on Berlin’s Ostgut Ton label. This continued with the follow-up album The Messenger which contained over 12 tracks of exploratory techno and electronica, seeking new sounds while staying true to the original PAS ideology.

Canada’s Mathew Jonson is a hallowed figure in minimal techno and house circles, putting out classics like Marionette. The classically trained Vancouver native is also known for his electronic jazz fusion with band projects Modern Deep Left Quartet (MDLQ) and Cobblestone Jazz. Early on the sometime DJ aired music on Itiswhatitis Recordings, launched by friend Spencer Drennan. He subsequently collaborated with Luciano as well as released music on Richie Hawtin’s M_nus. He also co-founded the respected Wagon Repair.

Luke Slater plays at Electric Circus on Fri Jan 11.

Feenixpawl Following their ARIA win for Best Dance Release with In My Mind and their Grammy nomination for Best Remixed Recording (Non Classical), Aussie dance duo Feenixpawl are hitting the road on the back of the OneLove Sonic Boom Box compilation. Based in Melbourne, DJs/producers Aden Forte and Josh Soon started collaborating back in 2003 and landed a residency with OneLove in 2006 and went on to release their first single Calypso which was remixed by Kid Massive, Sebastian Morxx and The Sargents. More recently, Feenixpawl produced a bootleg of Adele’s Rolling In The Deep which earned them international recognition in 2011 with 2012 proving to be their most successful year yet after receiving an ARIA for their fifth single In My Mind – a collaboration with producer Ivan Gough from TV Rock and singer Georgi Kay. Catch them on their national trek when they hit HQ on Sat Dec 29.

Feenixpawl play at HQ on Sat Dec 29.

What have been the highlights of 2012 for you?

Movement Festival in Detroit was the main highlight for me. It gave me a new insight into electronic music – ironic, though, as it was guys like Kevin Saunderson and Jeff Mills who were ahead of the pack, leaving all the younger generation in the dust once again.

These days you’re based in Berlin, long beloved by musicians, but increasingly overrun by hipsters. Do you see yourself staying there indefinitely?

CD Reviews

I’m building a new studio right now so, yes, I’ll be there for a while. I don’t think it’s overrun by hipsters at all. The scene is the best in the world and the door policies at the clubs keep it this way – even though they can be a real downer if you happen to be the one denied at the door. It happens to everyone at some point or another, no matter who you are.

Do you have any studio projects coming up in 2013?

I have a new solo album [the follow-up to 2010’s Agents Of Time]. Cobblestone Jazz and MDLQ both have one as well, so it should be another busy year.

You are returning to Australia for a series of dates. What can you tell us about the set-up (and show) you’re bringing?

The Prodigy The Added Fat EP

HMC City Rhythm

Miguel Kaleidoscope Dream

(XL Recordings)

(Juice Records)

(RCA)

The Added Fat, an EP of remixes for the 15th anniversary re-release of Fat Of The Land, is basically the dance-punk version of the digital remastering of Star Wars. The Prodigy hand-picked Major Lazer, Noisia, Zed’s Dead, Alvin Risk, Baqaur and The Glitch Mob to have the honour of giving a new spin to Smack My Bitch Up, Firestarter, Breathe and Mindfields. Trying to tamper with the iconic dance-punk tracks with dubstep and electro-dance hooks could have been disastrous, but thankfully the result is the opposite. If anything, a touch of dubstep breathes new life into Breathe and ramping up the bass on Smack My Bitch Up makes the song even filthier (if possible). While Keith Flint’s vocals remained barely touched and thankfully Auto-Tune free, these new re-workings don’t revolutionise the songs, but just reinforce them. Clean versions of Smack My Bitch Up are included unnecessarily to omit the word “bitch” – although after 15 years that controversy has surely done its dash.

Lachlan Aird

Two decades after he introduced Australian techno to the world via Juice Records and then Dirty House, HMC finally delivers his debut artist album (not including his ’99 mix of original HMC acid techno classics, Music). Better known to contemporary house and disco audiences via his Late Nite Tuff Guy pseudonym, HMC is this country’s finest techno and house talent, which is further exemplified by his new productions on City Rhythm.

Though the album cover is reminiscent of classic ‘90s techno LPs, City Rhythm is about timeless driving, smooth and chilled techno and not throwback sounds. That’s A Groove lulls you into the album with its deep and lush drive while the wonderful tech house soul of Hallelujah (Version 2) is one of HMC’s finest productions, featuring a beautiful building groove that you wish would never end. City Rhythm is a showcase of why HMC is this country’s finest club producer and why the Adelaide he influenced will always be known as Australia’s Detroit, as ADL’s finest make club records with soul, heart and integrity.

Jeff Spicoli

If Frank Ocean’s debut album Channel ORANGE and The Weeknd’s epic collection Trilogy made your top 10 list this year, get your ears around Miguel’s second full-length, Kaleidoscope Dream. Smooth, silky and oozing with sex appeal (and sometimes just plain sex), Miguel’s come up with a classy, sophisticated and tasteful record that also contains traces of Prince and Michael Jackson and fuses together funk, soul, R&B, pop and rock amidst sparse and unpredictable production which perfectly suits his soft croons.

There aren’t many albums that have you hooked on first listen but it’s thanks to tracks like Use Me, Do You..., Arch And Point and Miguel’s interpretation of The Zombies’ Time Of The Season with Don’t Look Back that make this the exception.

Saucy, lush and minimalist – this one’s definitely made for the bedroom.

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Eighty percent of the material you will have never heard. I’ve been working a lot over the last year and decided ‘til the coming spring not to release much. The set-up is fairly similar to usual – lots of effects, drum machines and synths, et cetera. I’m really looking forwards to coming back. I hope the parties all turn out well.

Mathew Jonson plays at Cuckoo on Mon Dec 31.

Calendar/ Fri Dec 21 Gtronic (Electric Circus) Sat Dec 29 Ian Carey (Red Square) Sat Dec 29 Feenixpawl (HQ) Mon Dec 31 Theo Parrish (Rocket Rooftop) Mon Dec 31 Denzal Park (Red Square) Sat Jan 19 Kerser (Fowler’s Live) Thu Jan 24 She Can DJ Remixed Tour (Electric Circus) Sat Jan 26 Above & Beyond (Entertainment Centre)

with Nina Bertok

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There may be bigger stars in dance music but few DJ/producers have Erol Alkan’s influence. A one-man subculture, the Brit not only reconciled the noughties’ indie and dance realms, but also played godfather to nu-rave while leading a grungy electro revival.

Alkan has since established himself as a cool producer-for-hire, guiding the likes of Late Of The Pier.

This summer the tastemaker of tastemaker DJs will again hit Australia’s festival circuit – welcomed news as years ago he expressed doubts about touring due to aviophobia.

“Yeah, I had a bit of a fear of flying, which prevented me from going to Australia, but I kind of got my head around it,” Alkan assures.

“Then, after my first trip [for 2009’s Parklife], I was hooked. So it was a bit of a problem back then, but it’s not anymore.”

The North Londoner, his heritage Turkish Cypriot, attributes his initial pop education to a hip uncle. He started DJing seriously in the ‘90s. Alkan ran London’s feted Monday night indie disco Trash for a decade from 1997. By the early 2000s he was playing to a ‘dance’ crowd, beginning a long association with Bugged Out!.

Alkan DJed for Madonna – in Camden.

Mixmag named him 2006’s DJ Of The Year.

In the meantime, Alkan quietly developed his psychedelia DJ combo Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve (BTWS) with Richard Norris, the guy infamous for The Grid’s banjo-dance smash Swamp Thing. They cut edits (and remixes) referred to as “reanimations” – like that of Midlake’s folky Roscoe. Alkan soon acquired a rep as a canny producer. Kylie Minogue recreated his outrageous mash-up of Can’t Get You Out Of My Head and New Order’s Blue Monday at the BRIT Awards. Then Alkan’s remix of Justice’s Waters Of Nazareth helped break them. As with his contemporary Ewan Pearson, he’d

Erol Alkan

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produce LPs for bands – The Long Blondes (Couples), Mystery Jets (their career-clinching Twenty One, home to Young Love with Laura Marling) and, yes, Late Of The Pier (the neoglam opus Fantasy Black Channel).

Today Alkan has apparently overcome his old reluctance to produce others, but he remains just as discerning. He last coproduced Kindness’ dreamy post-disco song Cyan with Cassius’ Philippe Zdar. Possibly Alkan has pulled back on studio gigs because he now has a label, Phantasy Sound, with a cred album act in Kiwi Connan Mockasin.

But is he still open to pitches?

“It’s all really down to the situation – when you hear something or believe in something enough that you want to be involved with it,” he responds. “That’s my underlying criteria for it all, really. I’m open to anything if I think

something great is gonna come from it.”

Alkan has his own group of sorts in BTWS. This year he and Norris put out an original 12 inch, Door To Tomorrow/Black Noise.

“We only made 500 copies and they just came and went immediately.”

It was, Alkan says, “fun”.

In the past three years Alkan has also aired tracks under his own name, collaborating with German techno type Boys Noize – check out the ambitious Jarvis Cocker-featuring Avalanche (Terminal Velocity), inspired and approved by Leonard Cohen – and, recently, Switch. Again, Alkan has tracks stockpiled but is undecided about what to do with them.

Inevitably, Alkan has had mix-CDs, notably a 2005 Bugged Out! set. The DJ lately assembled I Love Techno 2012, tied in with the Belgian event he headlined in November.

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Is Theo Keating dance music’s cleverest DJ/producer? After pioneering big beat with The Wiseguys, the sometime DJ Touché devised the electro-goth outfit The Black Ghosts alongside ex-Simian frontman Simon William Lord. More mysteriously, he introduced the rebellious fidget house of Fake Blood with 2008’s Mars. Some imagined it was Norman Cook. Keating finally disclosed his true identity in Mixmag. Clever.

“There’s no masterplan – there was no plot or anything, it was all very accidental,” Keating insists, who rarely gives interviews.

“I won’t use the word ‘organic’, ‘cause that’s a bit rubbish, but it just started with one song.

Then people liked it and so I thought I’d make another and remixes... The anonymity thing was really just to avoid confusion with The Black Ghosts thing I was doing at the time...

It just sort of snowballed under its own force.

All this stuff online – all that early hype and speculation [about] who it was and all the excitement – wasn’t something engineered by myself. I had no manager – I still don’t. There’s no PR. It was just very much out there – people doing that for themselves and creating that kind of mythology and stuff. Once I saw it blooming in that way, then I thought, ‘This is quite interesting, this is quite fun’, and I started to have fun with it myself.”

Keating doesn’t understand an artist consciously ‘reinventing’ himself – he simply evolves.

In the early ‘90s the Londoner formed The Wiseguys with DJ Regal (Paul Eve), who quit after their debut. Ironically, Keating enjoyed greater success on his own. A second Wiseguys album, The Antidote, spawned the crossover singles Ooh La La and Start The Commotion, both licensed for ads. Keating now refers to all that as “the early days”.

Keating purportedly hooked up with Lord online. The Black Ghosts cut 2008’s eponymous album for Southern Fried Records, Damon Albarn a guest. The psy-folk Full Moon was memorably used in Twilight – and included on the best-selling OST. “I’ve never seen the film, even now – not out of deliberate avoidance, I just never got ‘round to checking it out,” Keating admits. On the DVD commentary Robert Pattinson asks what the Ghosts’ song is.

“Does he?,” Keating says, chuffed. (He’ll

Besides Alkan’s club bangers, there are selections from Blawan, Gesaffelstein and John Dahlbäck. The mix isn’t typical Alkan but, then, he doesn’t do typical.

“I mean, it’s called I Love Techno, because it’s for the I Love Techno institution, so I felt it was probably appropriate to make a CD of what I felt techno was like in 2012,” Alkan says. “If you were to listen to my [second] Bugged Out! mix-CD [Another ‘Bugged Out’ Mix & ‘Bugged In’ Selection], which came out a few months ago, that’s completely different.”

Ever the shapeshifter.

WHO: Erol Alkan WHAT: I Love Techno 2012 (OneLove) WHERE: Summadayze, Rymill Pk WHEN: Mon Dec 31

subsequently call Pattinson’s character Edward Cullen “Bobby Vampire”.)

The Ghosts suddenly found themselves fielding a huge number of MySpace ‘friends’ requests from (especially American) female fans.

“That was quite a strange little bubble.”

They considered touring the US to capitalise, but decided that their album had “finished its cycle”. Besides, the Ghosts had never aspired to be anything more than “a studio project”, performing only the occasional live PA. Ultimately, any mainstream interest proved “quite transitory” but, says Keating, it was “fun”.

The DJ switched focus to Fake Blood, disseminating singles and EPs, his biggest hit I Think I Like It, and select remixes (Noah & The Whale’s Charlie Fink dug his take on LIFEGOESON).

Keating recently dropped the first Fake Blood album, Cells, its material “maybe slightly odder or not really straight-up club tracks or for DJs”. He’ll follow the single Yes/ No with All In The Blink in the New Year.

Lord sings on two Cells tracks. The Ghosts last presented 2011’s stellar LP When Animals Stare. Keating is non-commital about a follow-up.

“They just come ‘round when they come ‘round.”

Again, there’s no masterplan.

Keating presaged EDM’s rampant hybridisation with Fake Blood’s electro/ techno/house. But, while he pays little heed to genre distinctions, dubstep – or, at least, “the tear-out dudestep stuff ” – isn’t for him.

“The original spirit of that stuff is great, but obviously it went off in a slightly obnoxious direction.”

The DJ is returning to our festival circuit, escaping a wintery UK. The one downer?

Boarding the plane on his birthday.

WHO: Fake Blood WHAT: Cells (Liberator) WHERE: Summadayze, Rymill Pk WHEN: Mon Dec 31

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The Guide // Please check with venues to confirm holiday opening hours.

Thursday 20th ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – DJ Isaac and Nick Deegan Duo ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Becky Blake (6pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Corey Stewart (5pm) AUSTRAL – Bunka: DJs BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: ProDuckShins Presents Front Bar: DJ Paul Gurry DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz. Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EMU HOTEL – karaoke party night ENIGMA – Get Folk’d Christmas Party EXETER ON RUNDLE – Mitch P Ward and guests

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – EVA’S BIRTHDEE BASH WITH ONE WITHIN PLUS MOLLOY AND 25 FRAMES GASLIGHT TAVERN – Groove Thursdays with Leo’s Lucky Dip Band

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – NIKKO & SNOOKS (7PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam with The Bluescasters GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Stillsons GRAND BAR – OMG JETTY BAR – No Use For A DJ Name (8pm) LA BOHEME – French Connection with DJ Zooma (9pm) MARBLE BAR – Ladies Night with Dylan Sanders, VIP, Rupheo, Mike Wills, Ben Earle and Acid Please!

MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) MARS BAR – VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night 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 – Jake Daulby WEST ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

aLMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJ Matty B, Jarrod Walsh and All About Her AMBASSADORS HOTEL – Ambar Lounge: Souled Out Cocktail Sessions with DJ Jason Lee (5.30pm) ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Franky F (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Jason Crago (6pm) Acoustic Reign (10pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Paybacks (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) AYERS HOUSE – Velvet BELAIR HOTEL – E’nuf Said 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 – Rock The Boss (5pm) East (8pm) BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BROADWAY HOTEL – DJ Sneaky Beats BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ

THU DEC 20 PARKWAY DRIVE (Byron), I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN, NORTHLANE & SURVIVAL @ Thebarton Theatre DARREN HANLON (Syd) @ Church Of The Trinity THE STILLSONS (Vic) @ Grace Emily

CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Heath Solo CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Ride Into The Sun DJs (1am) Band Room: The Stiffys with special guests DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Big Cheese (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 DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Underground Orchid 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 – Clearway (9pm) ENIGMA – Se Bon Ki Ra, This Side Of The Massacre, Desecrator, Exerthur, For The Vultures, Existential Deception, Headbore and Now I’ll Eat You ESPLANADE HOTEL – Tom J Williams EXETER HOTEL – Acoustik FEATHERS HOTEL – Antony Hubmayer FINDON HOTEL – karaoke

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – JUST ANOTHER APOCALYPSE GIG WITH THE HARDACHES, SECONDHAND SQUAD, BEAVER, THE SPATCHCOCKS AND DERRYN LYNCH MOB GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Sundance Kids Farewell Tour. Front Bar: Trent Worley Solo GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Readymades with The Monies GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Acoustic Blonde (6pm) HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Horizon (7pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs TKA and Krispy HIGHWAY – Friday arvo knock-offs HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOPE INN – The Rustlers (8pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs HQ – Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) LA BOHEME – Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (9pm) LADY DALY – Solar City, Milhowse and Colourvision LAVISH – DJ Sok and DJ Spin Dokta LEIGH STREET CITY BLUES – The Harmonics (2pm) LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL – Acoustic Jam with Jelly & Friends LIMBO – resident DJs Japeye, Alley Oop and She Said LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Paul Smith (6pm) Audio Zoo Duo (9pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am) MEADOWS HOTEL – Lily & The Drum (8pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Streaker Duo OAKS PLAZA PIER – Light It Up ORIENTAL – Shane Wolf and Undercover Duo PJ O’BRIENS – Full Circle RAMSAY PLACE – Acoustic Rendezvous (1.30pm)

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM)

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RED SQUARE – DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth, Decker and Bollocks plus MC Dylan REGENCY TAVERN – Iris (8pm) REX HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm) Black Caviar and Boris Loves To Boogie ROB ROY HOTEL – DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Dino Jag Solo (7.30pm)

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Satellites (8pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Russell Stuart SOUTHWARK HOTEL – Proton Pill (8.30pm) STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Pat Spins Out – A Vinyl Recollection (8pm)

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 (US), CLAUDE HAY (Syd) & PJ BOND (US) @ 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 MICHELLE NICOLLE QUARTET (Vic) @ Space Theatre

FOWLER’S LIVE – Bring On The Summer GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm) GEPPS CROSS HOTEL – karaoke disco with Craig Anthony

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: Cosmic Storm with Lily & The Drum. Front Bar: New Creatures and Vinyl Revival GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Gorilla Jones with Skank GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays Model Search Heat 3 with DJ Matty B and MC Mitch GRENFELL 110 – Triumvirate Ents presents: Weekly Summer Sessions featuring DJs Ragz, Jesse Proverbs and John Spencer and Daly (10pm) HACKNEY HOTEL – DJ HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Live & Loud presents Frenzy

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSIONS SEAFORD HOTEL – Full Circle SEBEL PLAYFORD – Acoustically Raw SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Ex Men STAG – Upstairs: DJs Huddy and Jase with urban and dance.

Downstairs: DJ Kieran and David James SUGAR – Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Nikko & Snooks (7.30pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle with DJ Little Jimmy and MC Steve Reece TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE CUMBERLAND – Launch Pad featuring local DJs THE CURIOUS SQUIRE – DJ DSJ THE ELEPHANT – Rockweiler and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – DJ Dante and interactive games night (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus and friends THE GRIFFINS – DJ playing house tunes THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment THE SOUL BOX – Plan A (10pm) TONSLEY HOTEL – One Planet (9pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign TOWER HOTEL – Heath Solo UNION HOTEL – DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN – karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – Rumours with DJ Tom Watson and MC Timmy Pine WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Stillsons (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Twenty Flight Rock WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Kontrol, C4, Deceed, J Rudd, Lush and Koops (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels Christmas Party DJs: Chaps, Hemilove, Ryley and Gumshoe

Sunday 23rd ALMA TAVERN – Sunday School BACCHUS BAR – The Torinos (4pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – The Gap (4pm) Wild Card (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Sunday Rubdown DOCKSIDE TAVERN – Acoustic Blonde (1pm) DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL – No Use For A DJ Name (9pm) DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – E’nuf Said ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm)

FRI FEB 8

TUE FEB 26

THU MAR 14

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

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

THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (US) @ Fowler’s Live

SUN JAN 13 THE AUDREYS @ Church Of The Trinity

TUE JAN 15

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

SAT JAN 19

THU JAN 31 SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Goolwa Aquatic Centre THE WATERBOYS (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre BENNY WALKER (Vic) @ Wheatsheaf

FRI FEB 1 THEE OH SEES (US) @ Jive SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Coopers Alehouse (Wallaroo) SARAH BLASKO (Vic) & ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA @ Festival Theatre WENDY MATTHEWS (Syd) @ Space Theatre BENNY WALKER (Vic) @ Willunga Hotel CLIPSAL 500: HILLTOP HOODS, DRAPHT & ILLY @ Victoria Pk THE SUPERJESUS @ Governor Hindmarsh

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 @ dates and Adelaide Showgrounds

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FRI MAR 1

MON MAR 18 JOHN WAITE (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh

TUE FEB 12

THE SMITH STREET BAND (Vic), BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY (US) & THE BENNIES (Vic) @ Enigma

TUE MAR 19

CELTIC THUNDER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

MON MAR 4 DEEP PURPLE (UK) & JOURNEY (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU MAR 21

WED FEB 13 CELTIC THUNDER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

TUE MAR 5

TUE FEB 19

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

WED MAR 6

WANDA JACKSON (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh

MUTEMATH (US) @ Fowler’s Live GRINSPOON (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh

SUN MAR 24 WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE (US) @ Enigma RODRIGUEZ (US) & THE BREAK (Syd/Tas) @ Governor Hindmarsh

MON MAR 25

SAT FEB 2 SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Norwood Live LIOR (Vic) @ Space Theatre WORKING DOG UNION (Syd) @ Space Theatre BENNY WALKER (Vic) @ Hotel Elliot (Port Elliot)

THU FEB 21

WOMADELAIDE: JIMMY CLIFF (Jam), HUGO MASKELA (South Africa), THE CAT EMPIRE and so many, many more @ Botanic Pk

IGGY & THE STOOGES (US) & THE BEASTS OF BOURBON @ Thebarton Theatre TAJ MAHAL (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh

SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Old Clarendon Inn EARTH CRISIS (New York) @ Fowler’s Live BENNY WALKER (Vic) @ Glenelg Surf Club CLIPSAL 500: KISS (US), MÖTLEY CRÜE (US), THE ANGELS & IAN MOSS @ Victoria Pk

ALESTORM (US) @ Fowler’s Live

TITLE FIGHT (US) & LUCA BRASI (Tas) @ Enigma

VIN GARBUT (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh

FRI MAR 8 – MON MAR 11

SUN FEB 3

WED JAN 23

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

FRI MAR 15

LUKA BLOOM (Ire) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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

SAT FEB 9

WED FEB 27

CAROLE KING (US) @ Festival Theatre

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS (US) @ Jive

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FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – IMOGEN BRAVE, SPEAR BRITNEY AND YOUR MOTIVE

RED SQUARE – DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan ROCKET BAR – Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR – requests with DJs SANTIAGO – Hussyboy (8.30pm)

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

WED JAN 16

THE STILLSONS (Vic) @ Glenelg Surf Club

ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro with DJ Isaac, MC Strawbs and Idle Saints Duo ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Becky Blake (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Dimitra (6pm) DJ Chris James (9.30pm) Top Room: Y-La All Ages Presents At Sunset and Good Question (6.30pm) AYERS HOUSE – Velvet BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ Steve Reece CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CAVERN CLUB – Christmas At The Cav featuring Love Cream and Kill Shot CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Bon ‘n’ All CROWN & ANCHOR – One In The Chamber, Featherweight, Life Pilot and The Weight plus DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends EMU HOTEL – Rolling Stones Tribute Show (8pm) ENIGMA – NJE Crew Showcase, The Pursuit and Classic Example ESPLANADE HOTEL – Russell Stuart EXETER ON RUNDLE – Sasha & The Dawnhorse FINDON HOTEL – Harvest

RAMSGATE HOTEL – ADELAIDE’S BEST COVER BANDS

SUN JAN 27

SAT DEC 22

SUN DEC 23

Saturday 22nd

HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Soundflex HOPE INN – karaoke (7pm) HOTEL RICHMOND – DJ Sly HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Brad Iversen HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker and Bangwel (8pm) JIVE – Play Pause Play with Sincerely Grizzly, The Rules and Hawks Of Alba KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LA BOHEME – DJ Tr!p and DJ Anthony alternate (9pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL – 2 Up Duo 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 – Greg Langam (6.30pm) MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – Tomboy OLD SPOT HOTEL – Rock The Boss (10pm) ORIENTAL – Kopy Catz Duo PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Dance On PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – After Five PJ O’BRIENS – Alien 8 PRODUCERS BAR – Escapism, Jerricho’s Bird, Blackwater and Articles For Action

SOUNDS BY THE RIVER: JIMMY BARNES, IAN MOSS, ROSS WILSON, DRAGON, CHOCOLATE STARFISH & SWANEE @ Mary Ann Reserve (Mannum) CASEY DONOVAN (Syd) @ Space Theatre

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

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

SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJ Isaac and MC Timmy Pine TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) TEQUILA REA – Rude Not To! playing funky beats THE CUMBERLAND – A Little Bit Different featuring local acoustics and late night DJ THE CURIOUS SQUIRE – DJ Ryley THE ELEPHANT – Kopy Catz and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – Chat Room with DJ Steeve Reece THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment THE PRODUCERS – Big Sexy Music, Inferiority Complex, Shutup Rubert and Grace TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Troy Harrison (4.45pm) Two Hard Basket (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Triplescore (9.30pm) UNION HOTEL – DJ Pauly plays ‘80s and ‘90s VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs Matty B & Michael Constant plus MC Kris and MC Matty B WAKEFIELD HOTEL – DJ Electric T and guests WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Lazy Eye and Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers (9pm) WHITEHORSE INN – The Hitmen and Harvest WHITMORE HOTEL – Bluescasters WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Kick Back (8.30pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – Red Leather Riot with Jungle City and Iron Feather ZHIVAGO – Scrooge Vs Grinch Party DJs: Terrence, Scott Holder and Ryley

SAT JAN 12

X FACTOR LIVE: SAMANTHA JADE, THE COLLECTIVE, BELLA FERRARO, NATHANIEL WILLEMSE, SHIANE HAWKE & JASON OWEN @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

FRI DEC 21

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TUE FEB 5 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 STRANGERS (Syd), THE DEAD LOVE & THE PRETTY LITTLES @ Ed Castle

WED FEB 20

SIR CLIFF RICHARD (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre JULIA STONE (Syd) @ Flinders St Baptist Church

FRI FEB 22 NORAH JONES (US) @ Festival Theatre THE ANGELS 100% (Syd) & DIVA DEMOLITON (Bris) @ Vine Inn (Nuriootpa) SANTANA (US) & STEVE MILLER BAND (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

SAT FEB 23 A DAY ON THE GREEN: DIESEL (Syd), MARK SEYMOUR (Vic), DARYL BRAITHWAITE (Vic), THE BLACK SORROWS (Vic), PSEUDO ECHO (Syd) & 1927 (Syd) @ Annie’s Lane (Clare Valley) THE ANGELS 100% (Syd) & DIVA DEMOLITION (Bris) @ Bridgeway Hotel

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

FRI MAR 8 MXPX (US) @ Fowler’s Live THE MARK OF CAIN (SA/US) @ HQ

SAT MAR 9 SOUNDAVE: METALLICA (US), LINKIN PARK (US), PARAMORE (UK) and so many, many more @ Bonython Pk

SUN MAR 10 DINOSAUR JR (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh RONAN KEATING (Ire) & BRIAN MCFADDEN (Ire) @ The Depot

TUE MAR 12 BOB MOULD (US) @ Fowler’s Live

WED MAR 13 RUTHIE FOSTER (US) & JORDIE LANE (Vic) @ Governor Hindmarsh

TUE MAR 26 BONNIE RAITT (US) & MAVIS STAPLES (US) @ Thebarton Theatre ROBERT PLANT & THE SENSATIONAL SPACE SHIFTERS (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

THU MAR 28 TONY JOE WHITE (US) @ Governor Hindmarsh MAD CADDIES (US), GOOD RIDDANCE (US), A WILHELM SCREAM, VOODOO GLOW SKULLS (US), THE FLATLINERS, DIESEL BOY, ONE DOLLAR SHORT, JAMIE HAY, JEN BUXTON, TOTALLY UNICORN & PAPER ARMS @ HQ

TUE APR 2 STATUS QUO (UK) @ Thebarton Theatre

WED APR 3 DROPKICK MURPHYS (US), FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS (UK) & SWINGIN’ UTTERS (US) @ Thebarton Theatre

The Guide // EMU HOTEL – Three Hump Camel (7pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Lochy Neale EXETER ON RUNDLE – Brad Cameron Presents

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – TO BURY OR BURN, RISING FROM RUINS, SEVEN ACTS OF MERCY AND PROMISE OF AN EMPTY SKY GENERAL HAVELOCK – Eddie (Wasabi) (4pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays GRACE EMILY HOTEL – All Star Shit Disco HIGHBURY HOTEL – Troy Harrison HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – Tim Bos DJ and Sax HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm) JAM THE BISTRO – DJ Tango LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Beej LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Velvet MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – The Royals Duo OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Undercover Duo ORIENTAL – Redline PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – 2 Up Duo PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – The Scribes

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

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Frenzy and Ben Lees Acoustic Duo SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Lonely Cosmonauts (4pm) SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) THE MAID – acoustic Sunday sessions (4pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Dino Jag Duo (2pm) VIRGINIA NURSERY – Gerry O WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Wheaty Christmas Extravaganza featuring The Yearlings, The Baker Suite and The Chaps & The Phlaps (4pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Dominic ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry Candy Cane Party DJs: Anthony, Scott Holder and Gumshoe ZOOTZ – Salsa night (every second week)

Monday 24th AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia AVOCA HOTEL – Schnitty & Trivia Night (7pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – Complete Trivia BOATHOUSE TAVERN: TAPEROO – Complete Trivia BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Complete Trivia

BULL & BEAR – Muso’s Jam (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Dieselwitch acoustic with Lachey Bruce EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – Coops & The Bird

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – CHRISTMAS MOVIE MADNESS FEATURING RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER AND RARE EXPORTS GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Complete Trivia OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Jake The Snake (8pm) ORIENTAL – Dino Jag Acoustic Trio 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 TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Hump De Bump Christmas with DJ Ryley and Dylan Sanders (8pm) TOWER HOTEL – Complete Trivia WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Em & Clem’s Creepy Country Christmas Eve (8pm)

Tuesday 25th ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Heidy De Ruyter (12pm) Top Room: Ark Goes Greek (9pm) AUCHENDARROCH HOUSE/WALLIS TAVERN – Duets FEATHERS HOTEL – Antony Hubmayer and Father Christmas GRACE EMILY HOTEL – closed HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Ben Juanta Christmas (12pm) MARION HOTEL – Franky F Christmas (11.30am) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – closed

Wednesday 26th BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia COLONNADES TAVERN – Memory Lane Trivia (12.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) DOM POLSKI CENTRE – salsa lessons (6.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!)

ENIGMA – Squeaker, Sudden State, The Reason, Red Sky At Mourning, Red Letter Riot, Bedlam and ICYU EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Complete Trivia

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SUNNYBOY AL’S KRAZY KARAOKE GLYNDE HOTEL – NPL Poker (6.30pm and 10.30pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Jayne West with Olivers Army 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 MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE GOODY – Kickstart DJs THE KINGS BAR – DJ Yusef Wilson THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill TOWER HOTEL – Uni Night with DJ Dom P TOWER TAVERN: RENMARK – Complete Trivia WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Lonely Cosmonauts (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – Creating Styles Karaoke (9pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music ZHIVAGO – Dripping In Gold DJs

Thursday 27th ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm) ALMA TAVERN – Grind ARKABA HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Becky Blake (6pm) AUSTRAL – Bunka: DJs BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Chasing Ghosts plus guests Front Bar: DJ Paul Gurry DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz. Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Ghyti Fish GASLIGHT TAVERN – Groove Thursdays with Mick Barnes Shades Of Blue

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – BRENTON MANSER DUO (7PM) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Elusive Moose with Causing Hammock and Jungle City GRAND BAR – OMG JETTY BAR – No Use For A DJ Name (8pm) LA BOHEME – French Connection with DJ Zooma (9pm) MARBLE BAR – Ladies Night with Dylan Sanders, VIP, Rupheo, Mike Wills, Ben Earle and Acid Please!

MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) MARS BAR – VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night PARADISE HOTEL – Complete Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Dylan PORTLAND HOTEL – DJs Cold One and Rabbit (9.30pm) PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international guests THE ELEPHANT – Complete Trivia

THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Sundy Mantis (8.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Friday 28th 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 – Tavern Bar: Franky F (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Shannon Lloyd (6pm) Little Wing (10pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BELAIR HOTEL – Acoustic Highway 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 – Bon ‘n’ All 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 – Dino Jag Duo (8.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) DJ Azz (1am) Band Room: Fluffy with Ricochet Pete, God God Dammit Dammit and guests 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 – The Torinos (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) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Troy Harrison EXETER HOTEL – Undercover Duo EXETER ON RUNDLE – The Aves and special guests FINDON HOTEL – karaoke GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Tara Carragher Trio with Kelly Menhennett GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs TKA & Krispy HIGHWAY – Friday arvo knock-offs HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOTEL ELLIOT – Justin Parker HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs HQ – Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) LA BOHEME – Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (9pm) LAVISH – DJ Sok and DJ Spin Dokta LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL – Acoustic Jam with Jelly & Friends LIMBO – resident DJs Japeye, Alley Oop and She Said LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Graham Lawrence (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show (2am)

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RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ SNAKE & DJ RUPHEO (9PM) RED SQUARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth, Decker and Bollocks plus MC Dylan REX HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (8.30pm) True Colours RHINO ROOM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Seamus, Sean Desmond, Andrew P Street and Koral ROB ROY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ (8PM) SLUG â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Clarke SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Heath Solo STAG â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SUZIE WONGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ROOM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pat Spins Out â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A Vinyl Recollection (8pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Nothing But â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s with DJ V and MC Timmy Pine TALBOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing requests

TAPAS ON HINDLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Wolfman (9pm) TEQUILA REA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rude Not To! playing funky beats THE CUMBERLAND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A Little Bit Different featuring local acoustics and late night DJ THE ELEPHANT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Triplescore and Dj G-Rillz THE GOODY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Gex (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Marcus THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tavern Bar: Katrina Caton (4.45pm) Flaming Sambucas (9pm) Chrysler Bar: McKenzie (9.30pm) UNION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Pauly plays â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s VICTORIA HOTEL: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;HALLORAN HILL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Marek and Michael Constant plus MC Kris WAKEFIELD HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Electric T and guests WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Archer & Bow (9pm) WHITEHORSE INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Ally & Co WINDSOR HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (9pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Skream DJs: Terrence, Bottle Rockets and Gumshoe

Saturday 29th ALMA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm)

ARKABA HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tavern Bar: Nam Tran (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) Sportys Bar + Arena: Rainbow Rothe (6pm) DJ Chris James (9.30pm) AUCHENDARROCH HOUSE/WALLIS TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Troy Harrison BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Steve Reece CAMEO BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Scarlet Ives album launch with Danvers, Ghost Knife and Menagerie plus DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends ENIGMA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mar Jade CD launch, Life Pilot, A Ghost Orchestra, One In The Chamber and Stay Gold ESPLANADE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beej EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fake Tan and special guests FINDON HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Harvest GARAGE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs (10pm) GEPPS CROSS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke disco with Craig Anthony

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The Guide // 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) MARS BAR – VJ Beejay and guest (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – The Royals ORIENTAL – Theo PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Two’s Company PJ O’BRIENS – Frenzy

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

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SESSIONS SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – Unknown To Man STAG – Upstairs: DJs Huddy and Jase with urban and dance.

Downstairs: DJ Kieran and David James SUGAR – Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing retro and requests TEQUILA REA – Bongo Madness with guest DJs THE CUMBERLAND – Launch Pad featuring local DJs THE ELEPHANT – Triple X and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – DJ Dante and interactive games night (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus and friends THE GRIFFINS – DJ playing house tunes THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Acoustica (9pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign (8.30pm) TOWER HOTEL – Craig James UNION HOTEL – DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN – karaoke WALKERS ARMS HOTEL – DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Vincent’s Chair Trio (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Wild Ones WOODCROFT TAVERN – karaoke (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Kontrol, C4, Deceed, J Rudd, Lush and Koops (8pm) ZHIVAGO – High Heels DJs: Chaps, Scott Holder, Sanchez, Hemilove and Ryley

Sunday 30th BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR – Eric The Falcon CROWN & ANCHOR – Drowning Horse with guests DOG & DUCK – Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUBLIN HOTEL – Nikko & Snooks (1pm) No Use For A DJ Name (9pm)

DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Point 05 ED CASTLE – Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL – The Hitmen EXETER ON RUNDLE – Mary Webb and guests GENERAL HAVELOCK – Eddie (Wasabi) (4pm) GILBERT STREET HOTEL – The Bearded Gypsy Band (2.30pm) GLENELG SURF CLUB – La Mar Sundays GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Career Girls and Seamus Anthony and special guests (6pm) HIGHBURY HOTEL – Heath Solo HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – Tim Bos DJ and Sax HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – NPL Poker (6.30pm) JAM THE BISTRO – DJ Tango LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Troy Harrison LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – Lucifers Lounge MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits MICK O’SHEA’S – Shannon Lloyd Duo OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Black Caviar ORIENTAL – Dino Jag Trio (2pm)

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

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS SEMAPHORE PALAIS – The Incredibles 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 – Dino Jag Acoustic (2pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Last Sunday featuring The Yearlings (4pm) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry NYE Party DJs: Anthony, Capital D and Krispy ZOOTZ – Salsa night (every second week)

Monday 31st ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: NYE Extravaganza featuring The Incredibles. Sportys Bar + Arena: NYE Spectacular featuring DJ Wolfman. Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (9pm) BACCHUS BAR – Dino Jag Trio (8.30pm) BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – DJ TKA BULL & BEAR – Muso’s Jam (8pm)

CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Stellar Dinner & Show CROWN & ANCHOR – Crank Yankers NYE with guests DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY – Georgey K Acoustic ELDER PARK – free NYE event featuring Hurricanes, The Bearded Gypsy Band, Shortstax, The Bakers Digest, Hushes and The Transatlantics (7pm) ENIGMA – Necromancy (Bar 2) LS@160BPM (Bar 3) Mayhem (Downstairs) ESPLANADE HOTEL – Heath Solo EXETER ON RUNDLE – NYE show FEATHERS HOTEL – Black Magic Dinner & Dance GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: NYE Latino Carnival featuring Hot, Hot, Hot GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ New Years Eve Jam HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Planet Square Dinner & Show HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Black Fedora Jazz (7.30pm) MARION HOTEL – Cue ‘n’ Brew: Satisfaction Rolling Stones Tribute Show. Bart’s Bar: Two Hard Basket (9pm) OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Jake The Snake (8pm) ORIENTAL – Tom J Williams PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Chunky Custard Dinner & Show PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Xtreme Tributes Dinner & Show PJ O’BRIENS – Alien 8 RENMARK HOTEL STREET PARTY – The Funkees and The New Romantics RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROB ROY HOTEL – Miles, Paul and Bish (9pm) ROSEWATER SOCIAL SPORTS CLUB – Big Fish ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm) SEBEL PLAYFORD – Ballroom: Mike Foenander Big Band Dinner & Show (7pm) Smarty Boys SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE DELI – Proton Pill (6pm) THE ELEPHANT – Triple X and DJ G-Rillz THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen TONSLEY HOTEL – One Planet (9pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Troy Harrison WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – NYE featuring Prawnhead and Capitol Swing (8pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – Blue Comets ZHIVAGO – closed

Tuesday 1st BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CAVAN HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Industry Night with DJs Stevie & Duncan DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – live music PARADISE HOTEL – Memory Lane Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE COVE TAVERN – Complete Trivia THE GOODY – Complete Trivia

THE GRIFFINS – fresh, funky and progressive tunes THE KINGS BAR – Old Skool Funk with Nixon and Penfold.

Back Bar: APL poker THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Complete Trivia WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – New Years Day with The Hushes (5pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Wednesday 2nd BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia COLONNADES TAVERN – Memory Lane Trivia (12.30pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) DOM POLSKI CENTRE – salsa lessons (6.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!)

EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange (7.30pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis FINDON HOTEL – Complete Trivia

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SUNNYBOY AL’S KRAZY KARAOKE GLYNDE HOTEL – NPL Poker (6.30pm and 10.30pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Fergus O’Regan with 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 MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and Mr Whiskas THE GOODY – Kickstart DJs THE KINGS BAR – DJ Yusef Wilson THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill TONSLEY HOTEL – Quiz Night (7pm) 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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Les Misérables (M) Adelaide-connected, Oscarwinning director Tom (The King’s Speech) Hooper’s filming of the hugely-acclaimed ‘80s-musical take on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel (which should really be retitled The Wretched or The Poor Ones, but anyway) is a mammoth, star-studded achievement which, it must be said, from time to time feels vaguely overlong, overblown and over-everythinged. Nevertheless, fans of the stage version will adore this tale of former prisoner and fugitive Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman, and he can really sing, just by the way) who, released from 19 years of incarceration and breaking his parole, turns up years later under a pseudonym as the well-to-do mayor of Montreuil-surMer, where doggedly dour policeman/ nemesis Javert (Russell Crowe) eventually recognises him, especially when Valjean takes pity on a former, wrongly-sacked employee, Fantine

Quick Flicks (Anne Hathaway), and dangerously seeks to become guardian to Fantine’s daughter Cosette. After years on the run, the grown-up Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) goofily falls for revolutionary Marius (Eddie Redmayne) as the 1832 Paris student uprisings commence, and Valjean is again forced out of the shadows and into the firing-line of the lurking Javert, who simply won’t give up and get the hell over himself.

And some may suggest the same of Crowe, whose singing rather pales beside Jackman (excelling at Look Down and What Have I Done?), Seyfried (those high notes!), comic-relief baddies Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen, and Hathaway, who performs the heartwrenching I Dreamed A Dream in one memorably moving take. Sorry, I’ve got something in my eye…

Opens Christmas Day. Mad Dog Bradley

Opel Moonlight Cinema Botanic Pk

Opel Moonlight Cinema continues in Botanic Pk throughout the yuletide period, with offerings including: The Intouchables (M) on Thu Dec 20; Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (G) on Fri Dec 21; Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (G) on Sat Dec 22; Oliver Stone’s Savages (MA) on Sun Dec 23; Skyfall (M) on Wed Dec 26; the Grease Sing-A-Long (M) on Thu Dec 27; Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (PG) on Fri Dec 28; Taken 2 (MA) on Sat Dec 29; Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (MA) on Sun Dec 30; Paranorman (PG) on Tue Jan 1; and The Dark Knight Rises (M) on Wed Jan 2. Details: moonlight.com.au.

Opening But Unrated Quartet (M)

Parental Guidance (PG)

Samsara (M)

The 70something Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial début with this very English filming of a play and screenplay by Ronald Harwood (a less intense piece than his scripts for The Diving Bell And The Butterfly or The Pianist), and seems to think that if he adores his cast and his soundtrack then the rest of the movie will take care of itself (hmm…).

In a home for retired opera singers (do such places really exist?), a group of onceprestigious residents are friends and former colleagues, including proud Reginald (onetime angry-young-man Tom Courtenay), randy Wilf (twinkly-eyed Billy Connolly) and the eternally optimistic but now-wandering Cissy (the fine Pauline Collins). When the formidable Jean (Maggie Smith) moves in, it unsettles the group, as her reputation precedes her and, more importantly, she was once married to Reginald, but Wilf and Cissy refuse to buy into her cynical nonsense and insist that she make up the fourth part of a quartet at the impending celebrations for Verdi’s birthday. Will Jean let the past go and accept that she’s getting old - and will Maggie Smith ever stop being Maggie Smith?

With a lovely cast (including Michael Gambon rather overdoing the campness and no less than Andrew Sachs AKA Manuel from Fawlty Towers), this is wistfully sad and sweet enough to see you past the occasional silliness, with the rarely-seen Courtenay and the workaholic Smith stealing it (were they ever on off-camera?) and more than enough warbling for opera snobs… um… lovers.

Opens Christmas Day. Mad Dog Bradley

The sort of clean and conservative would-be familial comedy that always turns up at Christmas, this TV-movie-looking outing from director Andy Fickman has moderately good intentions yet proves almost perfectly blah. Longtime, 60something sportscaster Artie Decker (Billy Crystal looking suspiciously young) loses his job and barely has time to lament with missus Diane (Bette Midler) before they’ve been uneasily roped in by semi-estranged daughter Alice (Marisa Tomei) and her hubby Phil (Tom Everett Scott) to look after the three grandkids they barely know, as Alice and Phil jet off for work. And, as Alice and Phil are ridiculously (hmm…) overprotective ‘helicopter parents’, the young ‘uns - namely fretful Harper (Bailee Madison), stuttering Turner (Joshua Rush) and confabulating Barker (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) - are spoilt beyond belief and seriously neurotic, which leads to the bewildered Artie and Diane imposing some of their old-school, singing-anddancing, kick-the-can parenting, and an assortment of laboured gag set-pieces built upon, for example, public urination, cake tossing and even a glimpse of one of the Saw movies (although as this is, of course, as the title suggests, rated PG, it’s only the merest few seconds).

A Walden Media production (a company that specialises in this sort of ‘heartwarming’ nonsense), there’s, perhaps, a bit of an edge here, at first, with its clash of traditional and newer styles of bringing up kids, and yet it’s lost in the usual lame scripting, grinding plot mechanics, trickily Republican subtexts and the horrific notion that, at some point in time, Billy Crystal and Bette Midler got it on.

Opens Christmas Day. Mad Dog Bradley

It’s been 20 years since Ron Fricke’s visual think-piece Baraka, and there are those who have been eagerly anticipating a sequel ever since. The wait is over, but many may be unprepared for the darker direction Fricke has taken.

Shot on 70mm, full-colour film, Samsara, meaning ‘continuous flow’ in Sanskrit, and a blanket term for the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth in Buddhist teachings, is a brightlylit exploration of the world set to haunting music, featuring stock footage of bustling civilisations, factory production lines, heavy traffic and technology en masse, blended with moments of quiet reflection, including monks creating meticulous sand paintings, traditional dancers and vast, untouched landscapes, like holiday postcards from a desolate planet.

The spiritually-enriched among us may see Samsara as a commentary on ‘existence’, be it good, bad or downright ugly, but every shot of peace and serenity has a distressing, almost sinister countershot, from broken cities to tours of slaughterhouses to mummified corpses, the idea being that the ‘ugly’ is there as part of a cautionary message that sometimes goes out the window in favour of pure shock value, with the conflicting feelings of isolation and suffocation sure to bring on bouts of paranoia, depression and trypophobia.

Instantly reminiscent of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, even before Baraka, Samsara is undoubtedly beautiful, but it is also confronting and unsettling, and the grittier subject matter should not be entered into, or departed from, lightheartedly. Viewer beware: many animals were severely harmed during the making of this movie.

Opens Christmas Day. Kat McCarthy

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (M), director/co-script-adaptor/co-producer Peter Jackson’s prequel to his Tolkienderived Lord Of The Rings trilogy, features Martin Freeman as the younger Bilbo Baggins, Ian McKellen as (of course) Gandalf, Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt and a host of players from Rings (you’ve seen them in the trailer: Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett and Andy ‘Gollum’ Serkis). Starts Boxing Day.

Life Of Pi (M), drawn from Yann Martel’s book and directed by Ang Lee (his first film since 2009’s underappreciated Taking Woodstock), is an FX-heavy 3D fantasy that stars a small army of Bollywood-ish actors, as well as Rafe Spall and Gérard Depardieu too.

Starts Tue Jan 1.

And the family-targeted Wreck-It Ralph (PG), director Rich Moore’s computer-game-riffing animated epic, has voicers including John C Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch, Ed O’Neill and others. Starts Boxing Day.

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