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Editor’s Note// Mid-2012 a 2001 video clip appeared online of a New Zealand kids show called What Now?. The short TVNZ segment featured a confident and lively 11-yearold girl recording a self-penned song and chatting animatedly about her pop star aspirations. A decade on, little Kimbra Johnson’s dreams have well and truly become a reality.

In the 16 months since her first Rip It Up cover coincided with the release of her debut album Vows, Kimbra has grown from hotly-tipped indie star to globally-acknowledged vocal powerhouse. Although it might have been her indispensible appearance on Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know that initially landed her on international radars, it’s Kimbra’s own striking output and disciplined work ethic that’s kept her there. Unlike churlish fame-chasers such as The Temper Trap, she’s also been careful to keep her Aussie fans sated while effortlessly plotting a global offensive. Since Vows dropped, Kimbra has performed in Adelaide at headline shows as well as festivals including SpinOff, Parklife, Summadayze and Big Day Out. She now adds another festival to the list, with Rip It Up exclusively announcing Kimbra’s appearance at the Adelaide Festival as a special guest of Van Dyke Parks.

Once again taking advantage of all sorts of intriguing opportunities that come her way, this fiercely determined workhorse is vowing to make 2013 just as vibrant and productive as 2012.

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Making a rare hometown appearance from 6.30pm on Fri Jan 4 as part of Adelaide Festival Centre’s Sessions program at Space Theatre.

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What: Sessions / Where: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre / When: Fri Jan 4 – Sat Jan 9 / Info: adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au

Sessions Quick off the mark for a new year and a new festival season, the Adelaide Festival Centre present the return of Sessions. The festival will see a variety of 23 local, national and international acts over 13 nights in

intimate cabaret-style shows in the Space Theatre. French-Australian Nadeah returns after a successful run at the 2012 Cabaret Festival and Adelaide’s favourite ratbags - and Gotye-endorsed “real men” - The Beards will to continue their campaign for peace, love and world domination for those that embrace the majesty of facial hair. See online for the full line-up and GreenRoom member discounts.

If you like Joe Bonamassa, you might just like Joanne Shaw Taylor. Bonamassa says there are a lot of great guitarists and singers in the world today, but that the blues rock guitarist and gravelly-voiced singer sets herself apart from the rest with the ability to write a great song. Shaw Taylor has toured with Bonamassa, BB King and recently played The Queen’s Jubilee Concert with Annie Lennox.

“Not only is she a killer guitarist and singer, but you find yourself walking away from her shows singing her songs as well,” Bonamassa says.

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If you are reading this then either the Mayan apocalypse failed to eventuate, or Rip It Up really does belong in Hell. If it’s the former, then our existence may be in jeopardy again if This Will Destroy You live up to their namesake.

The Texan rockers will be coming to Australia for the first time, bringing their brand of facemeltingly epic rock in the wake of their latest, darker album Tunnel Blanket. Given that tracks from their 2006 debut EP Young Mountain were used by the Pentagon (yes, that Pentagon) in a presentation about Hurricane Katrina, it implies not only that This Will Destroy You deliver evocative, provoking, raw and beautiful music, but also that politicians like to rock. The Crown & Anchor, Adelaide’s key destination for top secret defence strategies, will be the destination of choice when This Will Destroy You infiltrate our borders in March.

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White Chicks Live On Stage Who: The Presets / Where: Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre / When: Tue Feb 5 / Tickets: ticketek.com.au

Kim Moyes From The Presets Talks Pacifica “One of the big ideas for the album was not something that was supposed to be superobvious, but it’s this kind of Australianism.

We wanted the flavour of the record to be particularly Australian, and not in a typical rock sort of way, in a more modern Presets kind of way. So with Ghosts I really responded

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to the idea, we wanted it to have a militaristic flavour, we wanted it to be dreamy, we wanted it to sound haunting like ghosts and also like the spirits of the past. We wanted it to feel as if you were on a boat and the boat was rocking. We just try to make as visceral music as possible.”

Shawn and Marlon Wayans, the youngest members of the Wayans dynasty that has brought us decades of stoner comedies and inane sitcoms, are coming to Australia for their stand-up comedy show. Chances are that if you went through puberty in the early 2000s, Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2 taught you what sex, swearing and drugs were. A few years later White Chicks probably even taught you what a comedy that centres around racial profiling really looks like. Hopefully Shawn and Marlon Wayans have some genuine LOLs left up their sleeve.

Uke Hunt Eddie Vedder might have released 16 tracks of sweet ukulele songs last year, but even he acknowledges he has a long way to go before he catches up with ukulele gun Jake Shimabukuro.

“Jake is taking the instrument to a place that I can’t see anybody else catching up with him,” Vedder says.

Young Hawaiian Shimabukuro shreds his uke so hard that he has earned comparisons to Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix (he’s the guy playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps in Central Park in a YouTube clip that went viral, with more than 10.5 million views). He plays a mix of jazz, rock, classical, traditional Hawaiian music and folk that has drawn fans and collaborators in Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Bette Midler, Yo-Yo Ma, Cyndi Lauper, Ziggy Marley, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, Dave Koz, Chris Botti and Jimmy Buffett.

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Parks And Recreation A decade ago, a 12-year-old Kimbra Johnson would stare up at the poster of Silverchair on her bedroom wall and daydream about frontman Daniel Johns while listening to their orchestral opus, Diorama. A decade later, she’s set to share a stage with her childhood idol and Diorama’s esteemed producer, Van Dyke Parks, at the Adelaide Festival.

I had the classic grungy Nirvanalooking Silverchair poster looming down on me,” Kimbra laughs. “I explained this to Daniel when we met after Homebake – it’s an embarrassing thing letting another artist know that you’ve connected with them from such a young age. I have met a lot of people I respect, but the moment of meeting Daniel Johns was huge for me. I felt like a little girl again – and it’s nice to feel that still.

“Daniel was actually just a chilled guy from Newcastle, which brought the humanity back to it a little. You meet your idols and it changes your whole perspective, because you’re not seeing them as a person on a pedestal but you’re realising there’s a mutual respect there. It’s very humbling.”

The 22-year-old remains an incredibly grounded pop star despite an 18 months that have seen her release the globally acclaimed debut Vows, tour the globe incessantly and earn a Grammy nomination for her part in Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know. For an indication of her hectic diary of 2012, one need look no further than Kimbra’s Big Day Out schedule last year. After performing at the Melbourne event, she

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caught a plane to Los Angeles, performed a duet with Gotye on Jimmy Kimmel Live, caught a plane directly back to Australia and then took to the Adelaide Big Day Out stage just hours after making it through Customs. As she nears “the beautiful moment of closing the book on Vows and looking to the next body of work”, Kimbra is now in preparation for her unique Adelaide Festival appearance with admired performer Van Dyke Parks.

The 70-year-old producer, arranger, writer and iconoclast behind such hallowed works as The Beach Boys’ Heroes And Villains, Silverchair’s Across The Night and U2’s All I Want Is You will lead the Adelaide Art Orchestra through some covers as well as his own career-defining songs. With Parks chiefly seated at the piano, Daniel Johns and Kimbra will be on hand to bring songs from his albums such as Song Cycle and Discover America to life.

“Daniel Johns and Kimbra will bring real vocal splendour to this event,” Parks graciously suggests. “They’re both virtuosos, as singers and songwriters. They’ll perform solos and duets and Daniel will be performing, for the first time anywhere, the orchestrated work I provided for his Silverchair albums Diorama and Young Modern. I’m also blown away by Kimbra carving out some precious time to celebrate my body of work. Daniel and Kimbra will no doubt fill the theatre with many who’ve never heard my name, so I am touched and floored - by the kindness of these two musical giants.”

Kimbra is similarly glowing about her Festival allies.

“I’ve been a huge fan of Van Dyke ever since I first heard the work he did on Silverchair’s Diorama,” the singer songwriter says. “I was blown away by his arrangements and from that point on he’s

been a person I’ve dreamed of working with. [Former president of Warner Bros] Lenny Waronker produced Song Cycle for Van Dyke and he introduced us; we went out for dinner and we really hit it off. Van Dyke’s such an incredible man and humble spirit with so many stories. We really connected musically and started working on some collaborations, although none of them ended up making it to Vows. Through that connection we spoke about working together again and he told me about this show with Daniel Johns and asked me to be a part of it. It is a huge honour.”

Waronker’s guiding influence has also ensured Kimbra’s music has ended up in the hands of a similarly revered American performer. A long-standing devotee of fine female voices, Minneapolis rock god Prince has shown an interest in Kimbra’s output.

“He’s aware of my music,” Kimbra admits. “We were actually told by his manager that Prince was coming down to our Minneapolis show halfway through last year, so the whole balcony section of this gritty industrial venue was sectioned off in case he turned up. It was a full-on show for me because I kept looking up at this dark balcony and I couldn’t see any figures in the shadows, but I knew that potentially he was up there watching.

“It turns out he never came, but it was fun to fantasise over the idea he might have been there,” Kimbra laughs. “I think we put on a good show – we went the extra mile just in case.”

WHAT: Van Dyke Parks with special guests Kimbra and Daniel Johns WHERE: Thebarton Theatre WHEN: Fri Mar 8

Second Album Syndrome “At this point I’m very open-minded about the next record,” Kimbra says of her impending follow-up to 2011’s debut Vows. “Working with different people was good for Vows, so I’ve been maintaining a childlike approach of just seeing what happens.” Here are Rip It Up’s odds on potential collaborators.

Daniel Johns - 3/1 “People like Daniel Johns are the exact kinds of people that I would love to work with because they are such progressive musicians, penetrating that unknown place and pushing boundaries to find ideas that haven’t been tapped into before.”

Van Dyke Parks - 15/1 “Given the opportunity to work with Van Dyke on this Adelaide Festival concert, it would be silly to suggest it won’t go further. We’re up for trying, so who knows.”

Tears For Fears’ Curt Smith - 40/1 “Curt Smith is awesome and he’s come along to every single LA show we’ve played. It’s a flattering thing for me and the band as huge fans, so we’ve discussed doing some writing together.”

John Legend - 10/1 “I wrote with John Legend and have co-written some songs on his next album, which is kind of crazy. We did some sessions after he contacted me and told me he loved my stuff and wanted to do something. Why not, you know?”

The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weiman - 8/1 “We’ve been working together in New Jersey. Ben’s started a side-project with drummer John Theodore and members of Mastodon, so it’s been cool to jump on board that and see where it takes me.”

Prince - 100/1 “He’s one of those people where there’s a chance our paths will cross, but I’m torn as to whether I even want it to happen. There are certain people where there’s something beautiful and romantic about keeping the mystery to who they are, but who knows what the future holds.”

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Bigger Than Jesus Cosmo Jarvis, the 22-year-old English songwriter behind Triple J favourite Gay Pirates, hasn’t showered in four days. Nonetheless, Jarvis takes some time out from his busy proceedings to indulge in some banter with Rip It Up. o promote the release of his third album, Think Bigger, Jarvis is spending some of summer in Australia, appearing at the Falls and Southbound festivals plus playing some side-shows. Rip It Up catches the busy artist between writing scripts for his films and uploading his latest music video, with Jarvis hunting down a sleeping bag for the European tour that leaves the day after this interview.

“It’s impossible not to do a half-arsed job on some things,” Jarvis rues. “Usually it’s the most important things like sleeping bags so we can sleep in the van. I still haven’t got one, and we leave tomorrow.

“I’ll find one from somewhere,” he reassures himself.

Beneath the oddball outer layer of this troubadour lives Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan Jarvis. It appears as though Cosmo is not actually his real name?

“It’s not,” he admits, “but it’s not as bad as fucking Bruno Mars - that can’t be his fucking real name! My parents have called me Cosmo since I was born. They put Harrison there in case I thought Cosmo was too much.”

But what about when the parents are angry, dear Cosmo - surely mother makes ‘Harrison’ the port of call?

“Nah, she calls me asheck, which is Armenian for ‘arsehole’,” he laughs.

Jarvis couldn’t be more excited that it’s tour time again.

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“It will be the biggest band I’ve been out with,” he says. “In the UK I can’t afford to go around with a big band, we just lose so much money. I’m not really doing that well over here [in England].”

That’s where our big floating country of goodness comes in.

“The turnout of the gigs is just ridiculous [in Australia]. It’s really weird. I played a home show in my own town and maybe 40 people showed up, maybe, but in like Sydney I can play a gig and it won’t look like a fucking joke! It’s great!”

From listening to his latest record, Think Bigger, you would know that Jarvis is not a man who binds himself to a single genre.

“Why set yourself rules that are only gonna end up constricting the work that you’re doing? I’m writing a metal album now! It’s not gonna be under my name ‘cause I’m making this movie this year about a metal band. I really do love metal, so that should be fun.”

Amid smashing out some metal tunes, he’s planned ahead for his future in making music and film.

“I’ll probably just keep doing both,” he decides. “The next album’s ready to go, it’s done, all the songs are ready, I just gotta lay it down.

“Then after that, depending on the financial situation, I’ll either kill myself or make another film or album,” he giggles.

So he plays, writes, produces and records his music as well as writes, shoots, directs and stars in all his films. This busy little ferret is evidently a big bundle of talent, but how does this jack-of-alltrades cope with the multi-tasking?

“I am just incredibly tired and malnourished,” he laughs. “There’s nothing really else to do, to be honest. Yes, other areas do suffer, like personal hygiene and the whole relationship front. I’ve really gotta have a

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shower. It’s been four days since I’ve had a shower. Can you believe that?

Four days!”

He seems astonished at his own filth.

“The problem is I don’t have any clean socks. There’s no point in showering if I’m gonna have to put on my dirty socks, ‘cause my feet will just stink again. So my theory is I just won’t shower until I know I have clean socks to put on.”

WHO: Cosmo Jarvis WHAT: Think Bigger (MGM) WHERE: Crown & Anchor WHEN: Fri Jan 4

Pirate Party The playful little gentlemen Cosmo Jarvis admits he has quite the party trick tucked neatly up his sleeve, just to keep things interesting.

“It’s a good one!” he remarks excitedly, “I can put my testicles up into my pubic bone and get a member from the audience to come up and press the testicles and then they fall back down into the sack, it’s called ‘Buttons’!” he laughs.

Woah, That really is quite a party trick, but how does one come to realise they can manipulate themselves like this while going about everyday life?

“Oh, just messing about really. In the van everyone is just doing gross things to each other, so we kind of just stumble upon these things...”

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Burning From The Inside Peter Murphy was the singer with UK art rock band Bauhaus, who took their name from the German art movement of the ’20s and gained much fame when they appeared in the opening scene of the David Bowie film The Hunger performing their classic song Bela Lugosi’s Dead.

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urphy is currently touring Australia with his band to play Bauhaus classics along with material from his nine solo

albums.

“It’ll be the first time I’ve ever been to Australia,” Murphy says. “I’ve had offers [to tour Australia] in the past but it had always been explained to me that the cost can be quite prohibitive. But all that’s now been worked out – I’ve got some great new management – which is wonderful because I’ve been aware that I’ve got quite a loyal audience in Australia. And I’m also looking forward to seeing as much of the country as I possibly can because everyone I know always says what a wonderful place it is.

“And I’m not even sure if any of my band have been to Australia before although [guitarist] Mark Gemini Thwaite might have because he also plays with Tricky and The Mission.”

Bauhaus formed in 1978 but had broken up five years later. They reunited, briefly, in 1998 and again in 2005 to tour and in 2008 reconvened to record the album Go Away White. Murphy now seems at odds with his former bandmates.

“That dog is asleep and will never wake again,” he says of Bauhaus. “There was a

malevolent thing going on with what was to be our final album, although it was something you couldn’t quite put your finger on. I somehow got the feeling they [the other band members] were only doing Go Away White for the money.”

Murphy promises there will be something for every fan on this tour.

“Because I haven’t been down to Australia before, I will be peppering it with lots of Bauhaus stuff including some quite early material and other bits and pieces. But I’ll also include some later solo work with a focus on my latest album, Ninth. So it’ll be a big spread as we’ve pretty much got over 30 songs we can draw on. And a lot of stuff I did with Bauhaus was my own, especially as far as the lyrics went.

And there’s now a very benevolent energy with that material, especially with this particular band because they are not like a karaoke machine.

“It’s interesting to play that older stuff,” he then muses, “and I also think it’s good for audiences to nod their heads to something they know from their past.”

When I ask what have been Murphy’s highlights, he initially gives a surprising answer.

“Hearing Edith Piaf for the first time,” he says of the late French singer, before recalling a few other memorable moments such as seeing Nina Simone, Beth Gibbons of Portishead and Antony & The Johnsons performing live.

“But I guess a personal highlight is still when we filmed the Tony Scott film The Hunger,” Murphy then says of the 1983 film that starred David Bowie. “They’d originally wanted a disco band for the opening sequence [of the film] but it turned into a club scene and we were asked to do it. So they just let the cameras roll on us early one morning with just Tony Scott and the film crew in a London nightclub called Heaven.

“And there was a moment when I suddenly realised that Bowie was standing there,” he

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recalls. “I was much younger then of course, but to me it was such an important moment realising that Bowie was watching me perform.

“And then I got to talk to him,” Murphy continues. “I’d actually slunk away into a room somewhere and David had asked the others, ‘Hey, where’s Peter? I want to meet him’. And so he came and knocked on the door and I remember standing there thinking, ‘That’s him. That’s David Bowie.

But he’s so small. And so very pasty’.

“But, of course, David was a lovely bloke,” he laughs.

WHO: Peter Murphy WHERE: The Governor Hindmarsh (with Brillig) WHEN: Thu Jan 10

Spiral Stares Trent Reznor of US band Nine Inch Nails is a huge Peter Murphy fan, which led to an invitation for the re-formed Bauhaus to tour the US with Reznor’s band.

“Trent was a great fan of my solo work as well as early Bauhaus,” Murphy says, “but he’d never seen Bauhaus live. So when we re-formed in 2005, he invited us to tour with Nine Inch Nails but not as a support act because he wanted us to be special guests. Trent felt it was such an honour to be out on the road with us in front of a Nine Inch Nails crowd. And I felt quite honoured too.”

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She Can DJ Remixed Tour Featuring Leah Mencel & NatNoiz The Top 10 finalists from 2011’s and 2012’s She Can DJ competition will be igniting the dancefloors across the country as they take off on the official She Can DJ Remixed Tour this month. Set to be the first national tour of this magnitude for She Can DJ and partners DFO (Direct Factory Outlets), the event will be hosted by 2011 and 2012 winners Minx and Leah Mencel and will also feature DJs NatNoiz, Girl Audio and Dusk. This year’s competition winner was Adelaide’s very own Leah Mencel, who also ended up among the Top 10 DJs shortlisted in last year’s She Can DJ competition (won by ex-Adelaidean, Minx), while one of the 2012 runners-up was another Adelaidean, DJ Dusk, who is a veteran in the local scene and a one-time-winner of UK’s DJ Mag International Pick N Mix competition. Catch Leah Mencel and NatNoiz on Adelaide’s leg of the tour.

Leah Mencel and NatNoiz play at Electric Circus on Thu Jan 24.

Clubfeet

Q+A With Feenixpawl

Clubfeet are embarking on their Heirs & Graces Australian tour to celebrate the upcoming album release of the same name. Featuring the infectious first single Heartbreak (featuring Chela), the track is currently on high rotation across the airwaves leading up to the full-length’s release date this month, with 2013 sure to be Clubfeet’s breakthrough year. Hailing from Melbourne, the band first made a name for themselves via Europe and the US after releasing their debut album Gold On Gold back in 2010, receiving rave reviews from the likes of Pitchfork, NME and Spin. The album’s singles Edge Of Extremes and Last Words helped the guys achieve popularity in Australia and in 2012 they toured alongside Alpine, Miike Snow and Yuksek, as well as undertaking their own round of shows. Catch them again this March.

Melbourne housers Feenixpawl – Aden Forte and Josh Soon – have had an epic 2012. Their single In My Mind with TV Rock’s Ivan Gough and Perth singer/songwriter Georgi Kay, signed to Axwell’s Axtone Records, topped both the Beatport and ARIA Club Charts and won them an ARIA for Best Dance Release.

Recently, they remixed one half of OneLove’s Sonic Boom Box 2013 alongside Avicii.

Clubfeet play at the Ed Castle on Fri Mar 1.

Kerser Emerging from the Oz hip hop underground last year, Kerser is back in 2013 with his sophomore album, No Rest For The Sickest, which sees him joining forces with producer Nebs once again. The duo have continued to strengthen their unique sound on album number two, which has already taken the nation by storm, and are heading to Fowler’s Live as part of their national tour this January.

Originating from Sydney’s Campbelltown, Kerser has risen from the underground thanks to a potent mix of talent, determination and guts to try something new, with an attitude best described as controversial, cocky and careless. Musically, Kerser and Neb blend together rave, rap, electro, funk and R&B with themes revolving around drugs, parties, violence and abuse, as well as dreams and achievements. Don’t miss him when he comes to town this month.

Kerser plays at Fowler’s Live on Sat Jan 19.

What have been your highlights of 2012?

Aden: “There have been lots of highlights. Winning the ARIA for Best Dance Release and getting a Beatport number one with In My Mind was a dream come true for us. Of course, our first US tour was definitely an amazing experience also.”

You guys have just come off the Stereosonic tour, how was it?

Aden: “It was just so much fun being able to play to that many people and hear them chanting the words to our records. That feeling will never get old. It was also great to be able to hang out with all the Stereo artists for two weeks. We made some great friends!”

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You have mixed up Sonic Boom Box with Avicii, just in time for summer. What was your approach to the set?

Aden: “Well, we wanted the CD to be typical of what people can expect from our DJ sets. We put a lot of our own stuff [on it] as well as lots of our favourite tracks from the past six months.”

What else is coming up for you guys in 2013?

Josh: “[We] got a whole lot of new music coming out in 2013 and we’re really excited to get it all out there. Plenty of stuff just from us, as well as collaborations. [We] got some new tracks with Ivan Gough and Adrian Lux, among others.”

Any predictions for dance music in 2013?

Josh: “I think the scene is going to get bigger and better. As you’ve seen from Stereosonic, electronic music is having such a huge impact on the market here in Australia, but overseas, especially in the US, it’s going from strength to strength.”

Sonic Boom Box is out on OneLove.

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Big Boi

The Evolution Of Man

Chillout Sessions XV

Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumours

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(Def Jam)

Maybe Example ought to lay off the idea that releasing an album on an annual basis is a good thing. His third album within three consecutive years, The Evolution Of Man sounds bland, forgettable and unimaginative, seriously lacking in hooks and chockas full of fillers. If last year’s half-decent Playing In The Shadows was the party-til-youpuke album, then his fourth is like the much-dreaded hangover, the morning after when you look back on last night’s deeds and cringe. And Example’s quite happy to go into detail about it all – the alcohol, the drugs, the women, you name it... Lyrically, this comes across as an hour-long, soul-baring apology to his ex for acting like a fucking douchebag, while musically, it’s yet another departure, featuring some guitar riffs courtesy of Blur’s Graham Coxon... Erin McNaught: this one’s a keeper.

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What a cool little collection of down-tempo, stripped-back electronic beats Ministry Of Sound have offered up this summer. The new instalment in the series doesn’t disappoint with 42 tracks including Gotye, Florence + The Machine, Flume, The Presets, The Temper Trap and M83 spread out across two discs which invoke images of a cool summer breeze, the bluest oceans and suntanned, half-naked people. It’s soothing, relaxing and sounds like pure paradise, with standout tracks from Grimes (Genesis), Panama (Magic) and the cute little gem Water Bombs courtesy of Twinsy. Even if you can’t get to the beach this summer, just close your eyes and Chillout Sessions XV will instantly transport you there. This is hot weather’s ultimate soundtrack.

Simone Keenan

As an Outkast alumni, Big Boi has been flirting between the worlds of rap, funk, pop and electronica. This second solo effort sees some interesting infusions with some surprising indie electronic friends - Phantogram, Wavves and Little Dragon that are highlights of the album - but can’t hold the 17-track album together.

Teaming up with Kelly Rowland, Ludacris and Kid Cudi may not have worked in his favour, as these tracks lack the exploration and risk of some less predictable collaborators. While the album has a much softer and more melodic feel to it than other rap albums, vulgar lyrics in closing track She Said OK indict Big Boi of what we expected all along – the album lacks emotional depth or purpose.

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Calendar/ Fri Jan 4 Dialect & Despair (Fowler’s Live) Fri Jan 11 Luke Slater (Electric Circus) Fri Jan 11, Sat Jan 12, Sun Jan 13 Lyall Moloney (Exeter; Adelaide Hills; Glenelg Surf Club) Sat Jan 19 Kerser (Fowler’s Live) Thu Jan 24 She Can DJ Remixed Tour (Electric Circus) Sat Jan 26 Above & Beyond (Entertainment Centre) Tue Feb 5 The Presets (Entertainment Centre) Fri Feb 8 St Jerome’s Laneway Festival (Fowler’s Live & UniSA West Courtyards) Fri Mar 1 Clubfeet (Ed Castle)

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Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon created his own alt-R&B by manipulating AutoTune for Woods, impressing Kanye West. Now Minneapolis’ Poliça, Laneway-bound this summer, have gone further. Their stunning debut, Give You The Ghost, transforms contemporary synthy R&B into a digital miasma, evoking Aaliyah’s doomy techno-soul. And Poliça have made fans of Vernon (“They’re the best band I’ve ever heard,” he lauded to Rolling Stone), Kanye and Jay-Z. Prior to Laneway, Poliça are first embarking on an epic European tour, according to frontwoman Channy Leaneagh.

“It’ll come quick!,” she quips.

The singer, softly spoken and sweetly succinct, has something of Hope Sandoval’s shyness. Leaneagh recently ‘fessed in a blog that she multitasks during interviews, possibly accounting for her distraction. Today she’s looking at Polaroids.

“It’s pretty rainy outside, so I can’t go on a walk or anything.”

Leaneagh, a sometime violinist, previously led the folk-rock Roma di Luna. She joined producer Ryan Olson’s Gayngs – the not so trad R&B supergroup, of which Vernon is a member, behind 2010’s Relayted – and Poliça evolved out of her experimenting with him on the side. Moreover, much of the material on Give... was written about the break-up of her marriage to Roma di Luna’s Alexei Casselle (they have a three-year-old daughter).

Despite Leaneagh’s rootsy background, Give... is steeped in avant-garde ‘90s R&B. (Poliça’s Australian label Inertia has classed it as ‘RNB electronica’.)

“That is a big influence of mine,” Leaneagh affirms. “I’ve listened to it a lot. That’s probably one of the things that wasn’t even intentional.

I think if you listen to somebody enough, it’ll kinda be a part of your vocabulary and the way you instinctually sing.”

She is “a big fan of Frank Ocean” and rates The Weeknd’s illwave House Of Balloons, but

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also listens to vintage R&B – Etta James, Sam Cooke and Donny Hathaway. Plus Leaneagh loves world music, especially Asian, having briefly volunteered in Cambodia.

Key to Poliça’s sound is Leaneagh’s use of Auto-Tune. Ironically, just as a backlash to the widespread commercial co-option of the pitch correction technology was gaining momentum, artists like James Blake showed that it could be harnessed for innovative and futurist soul. Leaneagh digs Auto-Tuners such as The-Dream, not to mention Kanye with his 808s And Heartbreak.

“The purpose is not to make the voice more in tune – it sort of distorts it in a certain way that kind of smoothens it out into an instrument, more than just a vocal performance.”

Poliça has morphed into a full band with bassist Chris Bierden and dual drummers Drew Christopherson and Ben Ivascu, though the newcomers have limited artistic input.

Olson doesn’t tour. (Oh, and Bon Iver’s Mike Noyce contributes vocals to the album.)

The response to Give... has taken Leaneagh by surprise.

“I’ve never had a project like this that people liked so much – and I’ve never toured this much.”

Poliça dazzled at this year’s SXSW and, stepping in for Tom Waits, performed the gothic Leading To Death, not Dark Star, on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon – adventurous programming.

“That was a really good experience.

Everybody who works in the sound crew are all really nice.”

Poliça’s success has called Gayngs’ future into question.

“I think for all intents or purposes, it’ll probably become something different than how people saw it before. It really is like a project or a collective and a crew. Maybe someday in the future something else will come out of it, but it won’t be the same line-up or the same kinda direction.”

Poliça aren’t the first Minneapolis act to

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With DFA releasing his latest EP, Surahn Sidhu has fulfilled a five-year dream to release on one of the world’s premier imprints.

The former Swiss and Empire Of The Sun touring member, who used to release solo joints through labels such as Future Classic under his alias Sidwho?, recently released his Surahn EP on James Murphy’s label with Prins Thomas on remix duties for the EP’s wonderful, hypnotic single Watching The World.

“I set it as a goal around five years ago,” Surahn says about releasing on DFA. “I think in order for any dream to come true you

have to actually dream it first. I am a strong believer in affirmation and seeing things come to fruition is a powerful tool to help you go on creating more and more works.”

As a fan of DFA, the Adelaide muso and DJ became friends with former label manager Justin Miller, whom he met in New York after The Swiss toured the US. “We became very close. Then with the usual twist of serendipity I started coming across other DFA acts. We were on tour in the French countryside for a festival with Empire and happened to be playing on the same stage as LCD Soundsystem. It was after I went swimming in the river with [LCD Soundsystem and The Juan MacLean’s] keyboard legend Nancy Whang and drummer Pat Mahoney that I realised the label is a

family of super legendary people. Six months later I booked the [DFA] studio in West Village that they have cultivated over 10 years and found myself working on the demos I had been writing whilst on the road with Empire.

I slept in the studio. I woke up in the morning and made myself a coffee in my jocks; the only thing was that the coffee machine was up in the label office. So the guys got to know me.”

While Surahn is known for club and disco jams, Surahn features a laid back ‘70s vibe. It’s an EP where the ‘70s West Coast sound has been transported to Club 54.

“After years of working with other people and the disco mindset of The Swiss I needed to get back to writing love songs. I really love to sing and that means you need to sing about things. I have had a pretty colourful life; it

subvert the R&B idiom – Prince did that back in the ‘80s with songs like When Doves Cry. Prince reportedly once witnessed Gayngs live at First Avenue, yet Leaneagh has had no direct encounters.

“I just saw him in the green room – and that’s it,” she says tantalisingly.

Poliça are formidable live.

“Our live show is pretty similar sounding to the record,” says Leaneagh, who manoeuvres effects pedals for her voice. “It’s just pretty heavy on the vocals and the drums. But usually people say that it sounded a lot like the record with a lot more intensity. So it’s a lot more emotionally and kinda physically intense.”

WHO: Poliça WHAT: Give You The Ghost (Inertia) WHERE: Laneway, Fowler’s Live & UniSA West Campus WHEN: Fri Feb 8

lends itself to expression. It helps me get over things in some ways. Not to say that all my work is autobiographical but I do draw from personal experience a lot. Writing songs is the best therapy. I find it incredibly rewarding playing all the instruments and creating the landscapes for me to write short stories within. It makes me feel boundless.

“I am obsessed with classic tones. I use old equipment and instruments to help it sound classic but ultimately I think all those years of listening to music from the ‘70s has warped my brain. In saying that, I am still drawn to sounds that are new and fresh. I’m not intentionally snubbing modern production, I think I’m simply focusing on the older textures.”

Surahn, who has collaborated with Usher, recently inked a songwriting deal with Sony.

“I stay in close contact with the whole Usher camp. He is a force of nature. After signing a writer’s deal with Sony ATV this year I have been working with loads of artists in the US and here in Australia, most of them top 40 artists and there are some exciting songs in the pipeline.”

Then there is Surahn’s solo album, which is finished, and a live show.

“I am mixing some of the album here in Adelaide while I am home visiting family. The rest of the mixing process will be completed in the DFA studios in New York.

“I’m doing a couple of small acoustic shows before launching my full band show this festival season here in Adelaide. I can’t tell you much more than that as they are announcing it next month. I will be putting every inch of my being into those performances and can’t wait to be up on stage performing my own songs.”

WHO: Surahn WHAT: Surahn (DFA) WHEN: Out now

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Check out The Guide at ripitup.com.au

Tour Guide/ AUSTIN LUCAS (US), CLAUDE HAY (Syd) & PJ BOND (US) @ Grace Emily

CLIPSAL 500: KISS (US), MÖTLEY CRÜE (US), THE ANGELS & IAN MOSS @ Victoria Pk

FRI JAN 4

TUE FEB 5

THU JAN 3

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

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

SAT JAN 5

WED FEB 6

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

SAT JAN 12 SOUNDS BY THE RIVER: JIMMY BARNES, IAN MOSS, ROSS WILSON, DRAGON, CHOCOLATE STARFISH & SWANEE @ Mary Ann Reserve (Mannum) CASEY DONOVAN (Syd) @ Space Theatre

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

FRI FEB 8 LANEWAY FESTIVAL: BAT FOR LASHES (UK), JAPANDROIDS (Can), JESSIE WARE (UK), HOLY OTHER (UK), JULIA HOLTER (US), CHET FAKER, ALPINE, THE RUBENS and so many more @ COLIN HAY (Vic) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre

SUN JAN 13 THE AUDREYS @ Church Of The Trinity

TUE FEB 12

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

CELTIC THUNDER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

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

FRI FEB 15

WED JAN 16

THE DEMON PARADE (Vic) @ Rocket Bar

BEN SOLLEE (US) @ Space Theatre

SAT FEB 16

THU JAN 17

THE DEMON PARADE (Vic) @ Grace Emily

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 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS (US) @ Jive

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

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

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

FRI JAN 25 BIG DAY OUT: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (US), THE KILLERS (US), YEAH YEAH YEAHS (US), BAND OF HORSES (US) and so many more @ Adelaide Showgrounds

SUN JAN 27 A DAY ON THE GREEN: ELVIS COSTELLO (UK), SUNNYBOYS (Syd), JO JO ZEP & THE FALCONS (Vic), TEX PERKINS & THE DARK HORSES & STEPHEN CUMMINGS @ Leconfield Wines (McLaren Vale) KIKUYU (Vic) & SUPER XX MAN (US/Vic) @ Wheatsheaf

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

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)

SUN FEB 3 THE NECKS (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Old Clarendon Inn EARTH CRISIS (New York) @ Fowler’s Live BENNY WALKER (Vic) @ Glenelg Surf Club

TUE FEB 19 RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

COMING UP WED FEB 20 CAROLE KING (US) @ Festival Theatre THU FEB 21 SIR CLIFF RICHARD (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre JULIA STONE (Syd) @ Flinders St Baptist Church FRI FEB 22 NORAH JONES (US) @ Festival Theatre THE ANGELS 100% (Syd) & DIVA DEMOLITON (Bris) @ Vine Inn (Nuriootpa) SANTANA (US) & STEVE MILLER BAND (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre SAT FEB 23 A DAY ON THE GREEN: DIESEL (Syd), MARK SEYMOUR (Vic), DARYL BRAITHWAITE (Vic), THE BLACK SORROWS (Vic), PSEUDO ECHO (Syd) & 1927 (Syd) @ Annie’s Lane (Clare Valley) THE ANGELS 100% (Syd) & DIVA DEMOLITION (Bris) @ Bridgeway Hotel MON FEB 25 CAT POWER (US) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre TUE FEB 26 ED SHEERAN (UK) & PASSENGER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre GLENN FREY (US) & ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA @ Festival Theatre WED FEB 27 VIN GARBUT (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh FRI MAR 1 THE SMITH STREET BAND (Vic), BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY (US) & THE BENNIES (Vic) @ Enigma MON MAR 4 DEEP PURPLE (UK) & JOURNEY (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre TUE MAR 5 NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre WED MAR 6 LUKA BLOOM (Ire) @ Governor Hindmarsh FRI MAR 8 – MON MAR 11 WOMADELAIDE: JIMMY CLIFF (Jam), HUGO MASKELA (South Africa), THE CAT EMPIRE and so many, many more @ Botanic Pk 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 THU MAR 14 THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION (US) @ Fowler’s Live FRI MAR 15 TITLE FIGHT (US) & LUCA BRASI (Tas) @ Enigma MON MAR 18 JOHN WAITE (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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

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Los Coronas are a Spanish surf instrumental group who are currently in Australia on their first ever tour. They’ll be performing in Adelaide at Space Theatre as part of Adelaide Festival Centre’s Sessions program, so Rip It Up asks guitarist David Krahe how it all began.

“In the late ’80s Fernando Pardo, our other guitar player, started playing with other guys from our neighbourhood’s music scene in Madrid,” Krahe says. “They were playing mainly covers with a couple of original compositions. They played just a few gigs and broke up but I used to go to the bar where Fernando was working in those days – we were both great pinball players – and while we were playing a pinball game he asked me about playing [music] together.”

What have been your major influences given that you cross a broad range of musical genres including surf music, rockabilly and punk?

“The Ventures’ concept of playing music, as a whole band, was our biggest influence for the first 10 years. And also Dick Dale and Link Wray as well. But since we added trumpet to our sound, our influences have been extended to other musicians such as Ennio Morricone, Astor Piazzolla, Dave Brubeck and Paco de Lucía.”

What are you expecting on this trip?

“It’s gonna be the first time we’ve spent Christmas wearing T-shirts and shorts but, keeping that in mind, we are gonna be in front of a new audience so we must give 100 percent if we want to have another chance of touring Australia again.”

Do you prefer festivals or club shows?

“We’d rather play in clubs because people can get closer to you. The best thing about playing festivals is meeting all the bands you play with.”

How has your music evolved since you first began playing together?

“When we first began playing together we were an instrumental surf band playing in the most orthodox style of the genre. We thought it was easy to play so we tried to complicate our songs and make them a little more original. We realised we were wrong and right now we have an open mind regarding the music and are more focused on feeling the style’s essence through simpler ideas.”

Anything you wish to add?

“I’ve heard about a delicious Australian wine from the Barossa Valley so I’m looking forward to tasting it!”

WHO: Los Coronas WHAT: Sessions WHERE: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Sat Jan 5 at 9.30pm

Sun City

Loughlan

by Tyler Mc

As classically trained schoolmates, Perth lads Tobias John and Daniel Mackey experimented with orchestras and punk bands in their formative years, only recently moving into the field of electro pop as Sun City.

“It wasn’t until the beginning of 2011 that we decided that we wanted to sort of try our hand in a bit of indie electro pop,” John says.

“We were listening to a lot of it but we hadn’t really had a lot of experience with trying to produce it, so we gave that a go.”

It took the duo three months to get a live show together; just a month after that they opened the main stage on the Perth leg of Parklife and launched their debut self-titled EP. “We play a lot of instruments between two people on stage. So currently what we’re gonna

be touring with I believe is three synths, half an acoustic drum kit, an electronic drum pad and a guitar – and then we both sing on top of that. It’s been a fine balancing act – it’s taken us ages to streamline and perfect it. It just takes a lot of trial and error because we haven’t come across too many people in Perth, I guess, being isolated from the rest of Australia, that are doing the exact same sort of thing that we’re doing, so it has been a lot of just throwing ourselves in the deep end and then figuring it out for ourselves. Everybody’s different and it’s a bit of an effort with all the instruments, but it works for us.”

Their tour this month is in support of sophomore EP Set Alight, a back-toback summer soundtrack mixing ‘80s pop references with contemporary dance music techniques. It’s the first chance the Perth duo have had to take their music to the rest of Australia.

“We’re really excited to get over there - we

know we’ve got some fans in some cities that have been really hanging out to check us out live. We’ll hopefully make some new fans and get to party with some cool new people…”

Despite few interstate shows notched up, a Perth connection recently landed Sun City a spot as one of the international headliners at Salmon Fest in Harare, Zimbabwe at the start of this month.

“It’s kind of pretty random, I guess; it’s not exactly how we pictured us making our international debut,” John laughs. “It’s completely backwards – it’s crazy! But I think we’ve probably got the point across that we aren’t very conventional. We can’t complain at all.”

WHO: Sun City WHAT: Set Alight (Independent) WHERE: Rocket WHEN: Fri Jan 18

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Thursday 3rd

SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international guests THE ELEPHANT – Complete Trivia

ADELAIDE CASINO – Balcony Bar: Lucky Seven (8pm)

THE LION HOTEL – Clearway

ALMA TAVERN – Grind

WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm)

AUSTRAL – Bunka: DJs

WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – UNKNOWN REMORSE, THURSDAYS FRIEND AND TRENCH EFFECT FOWLER’S LIVE – Dialect & Despair

Friday 4th

CAVERN CLUB – band night

GARAGE BAR – Knock Offs (4pm) GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Dirt

CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia

ALMA TAVERN – Rock Out With Your C*ck Out

Playground

CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Kessel Run and

AMBASSADORS HOTEL – Ambar Lounge: Souled Out

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Vandas

special guests. Front Bar: DJ Paul Gurry

Cocktail Sessions with DJ Jason Lee (5.30pm)

GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays

DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm)

ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm)

HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs

DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm)

AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm)

HIGHWAY – Friday arvo knock-offs

DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz. Front

AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm)

HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire

Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B

BLUE GUMS HOTEL – Fusion – The Perfect Blend

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – bands

ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm)

karaoke and DJ (8pm)

HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm)

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm)

HQ – Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday)

EMU HOTEL – karaoke party night

BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and

LA BOHEME – Smooth Groove with DJ Curtis (9pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Joseph Moore and guests

Suckerpunch

LAVISH – DJ Sok and DJ Spin Dokta

BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Physical Graffiti (8pm)

LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL – Acoustic Jam with Jelly & Friends

BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ

LIMBO – resident DJs Japeye, Alley Oop and She Said

BROADWAY HOTEL – DJ Sneaky Beats

LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind

BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ

Fridays with DJ Wolfman

CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and

LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee

guests

MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs

CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm)

MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music

Ride Into The Sun DJs (1am) Band Room: Cosmo Jarvis

MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guests (9pm) drag show

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Austin Lucas, Jamie Hay and

with Echo & The Empress

(2am)

PJ Bond

CROWN INN – Lily & The Drum (8pm)

MICK O’SHEA’S – Acoustically Raw

JETTY BAR – No Use For A DJ Name (8pm)

DOG & DUCK – DTF with D Foe, Krunk, Dom P, Ryley,

ORIENTAL – live music

LA BOHEME – French Connection with DJ Zooma (9pm)

Kid P and MC Jon-E

RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm)

MARBLE BAR – Ladies Night with Dylan Sanders, VIP,

DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs

RED SQUARE – DJs Brendon, Gypkidd, Rubberteeth,

Rupheo, Mike Wills, Ben Earle and Acid Please!

Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K

Decker and Bollocks plus MC Dylan

MARS BAR – VJBeeJay and guests (9pm)

DUBLIN HOTEL – Proton Pill (7pm)

REX HOTEL – karaoke (8.30pm)

NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night

ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs

ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The

PARADISE HOTEL – Complete Trivia

ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt

Shiny Brights DJs

PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Dylan

N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests

PORTLAND HOTEL – DJs Cold One and Rabbit

ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs

(9.30pm)

EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm)

PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ

EMU HOTEL – Stone Crow (8pm)

SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Chris Finnen Band

Tango

EXETER HOTEL – Dino Jag Duo (9pm)

SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke

ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Dieselwitch

STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance. Downstairs:

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – PISTOLS AT DAWN AND GUESTS GILBERT STREET HOTEL – SWEET BABY JAMES & ROB EYERS (7PM)

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM)

Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse

DJs play retro

SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SUZIE WONG’S ROOM – Pat Spins Out – A Vinyl Recollection (8pm) SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJ V and MC Timmy Pine TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) TEQUILA REA – Rude Not To! playing funky beats THE COVE TAVERN – The Paybacks (8pm) THE CUMBERLAND – A Little Bit Different featuring local acoustics and late night DJ THE GOODY – DJ Gex (9pm) THE HAUS: HAHNDORF – DJ Marcus THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment UNION HOTEL – DJ Pauly plays ‘80s and ‘90s VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs Marek and Michael Constant plus MC Kris WAKEFIELD HOTEL – DJ Electric T and guests WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Honey Pies (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Dikonnect (8.30pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – DJs Deceed, J Rudd, Koops & Armac and AJ (8pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Ryley, Track Team and Scott Holder

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GARAGE BAR – DJs (10pm)

HOTEL TIVOLI – Exotica with DJs Sleepy Hips, Tinker

CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and

GEPPS CROSS HOTEL – karaoke disco with Craig

and Bangwel (8pm)

guests

Anthony

KINGSFORD HOTEL: GAWLER – karaoke LA BOHEME – DJ Tr!p and DJ Anthony alternate (9pm)

COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Lily & The Drum (9pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Ben David & The Hard Aches, Ebola Goldfish, Derryn Lynch Mob and Give

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM)

LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Troy Harrison LIMBO – resident DJs Delux, The Swiss DJs and Paul

CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with

GOLDEN GROVE TAVERN – Dino Jag Duo (8pm)

LONDON TAVERN – DJs Captiv8, Justice, Soundflex, AJ

Nicole (8pm)

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Opa! with Kalokairi

and MC Renard (10pm)

DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Satan’s Cheerleaders

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

and international guests

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

DJ Rupheo

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

B and MC Scotty

GRENFELL 110 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Triumvirate Ents presents: Weekly

and electro

ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Plus One Saturdays with live bands and

Summer Sessions featuring DJs Ragz, Jesse Proverbs

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

party DJs (9pm)

and John Spencer and Daly (10pm)

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

HACKNEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ

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Junior, Dancespace and friends

HIGHLANDER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Triple X

OLD SPOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Van Demons Band (10pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Echo End

HIGHWAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Griff (9pm)

ORIENTAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Theo

HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Soundflex

PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Street

HOPE INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (7pm)

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HOTEL RICHMOND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sly

PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Big Fish

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SWEET MEN AND FRIENDS

PJ Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BRIENS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Triplescore RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Adelaideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best cover bands RED SQUARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker,

Sticky Fingers THE HAUS: HAHNDORF â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Marcus and friends THE GRIFFINS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing house tunes THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; live entertainment TOWER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bonz UNION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Cloak & Dagga VALLEY INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke WALKERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sessions (9pm) WELLINGTON HOTL: WELLINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mick Kidd WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Andy & Marta and Kelly Menhennett (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rave On WOODCROFT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (8pm) WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Kontrol, C4, Deceed, J Rudd, Lush and Koops (8pm) ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; High Heels DJs: Osyris, Scott Holder, Hemilove and Ryley

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STAG â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Upstairs: DJs Huddy and Jase with urban and dance. Downstairs: DJ Kieran and David James SUGAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Prince Aaronak, Driller, Derek Lang plus a host of international guests SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shuffle TALBOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ playing retro and requests TEQUILA REA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bongo Madness with guest DJs

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GLENELG SURF CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; La Mar Sundays GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Shit Disco

The Guide // HIGHBURY HOTEL – Tom J Williams

ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Gumshoe and

DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Curtis

HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sunday Sessions plus Poker

Capital D

DEEP BLUE CAFÉ – Rob McDade (7pm)

FINDON HOTEL – Complete Trivia

888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in

ZOOTZ – Salsa night (every second week)

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Like Leaves DJs

FIRST COMMERCIAL HOTEL – Complete Trivia

Monday 7th

GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron

(6.30pm) HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – Tim Bos DJ and Sax JAM THE BISTRO – DJ Tango

Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Improv Cabaret

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – SUNNYBOY AL’S KRAZY KARAOKE

LAKES RESORT HOTEL – Theo

AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia

PARADISE HOTEL – Memory Lane Trivia

MARINA SUNSET BAR – Sunset Sessions featuring live

AVOCA HOTEL – Schnitty & Trivia Night (7pm)

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

acoustic music

BARTLEY TAVERN – Complete Trivia

SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and

GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia

MARION CULTURAL CENTRE – Entertainment At The

BOATHOUSE TAVERN: TAPEROO – Complete Trivia

Driller

GLYNDE HOTEL – NPL Poker (6.30pm and 10.30pm)

Plaza featuring local artists (1pm)

BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Complete Trivia

THE COVE TAVERN – Complete Trivia

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Brendan Lines with Brian

MARS BAR – VJK classic video hits

BULL & BEAR – Muso’s Jam (8pm)

THE GOODY – Complete Trivia

Scones

OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Undercover Duo

CROWN & ANCHOR – Brenton Manser & Sasha Louise

THE GRIFFINS – fresh, funky and progressive tunes

HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm)

ORIENTAL – 2 Up Duo

EXETER ON RUNDLE – Todd Sibbin Band

THE KINGS BAR – Old Skool Funk with Nixon and

Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm)

PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – The

GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Balcony Bar: Lord Stompy’s

Penfold. Back Bar: APL poker

HIGHWAY – The Combi Room

Scribes

Harmoniclub beginners night

THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions

HOLDFAST HOTEL – Nonstop Dance Party with DJs

PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB – Redline

GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam

VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Complete Trivia

Mike Wills & VIP

RAMSGATE HOTEL – acoustic session (4pm) Tom

HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Complete Trivia

WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam

HQ – Flashdance

Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm)

OAKS PLAZA PIER – Pier One Bar: Jake The Snake

WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia

JETTY BAR – karaoke

SAILMASTER TAVERN – Troy Harrison

(8pm)

WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

LA BOHEME – The New Cabal (9pm)

ORIENTAL – Dino Jag Acoustic Trio

Wednesday 9th

LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL – DJs (9pm)

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS

PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia

MANSIONS – live band karaoke MARS BAR – VJK Experience (9pm)

RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy

BOTANIC BAR – Gemma

MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection

SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Frenzy

ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night

CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Complete Trivia

PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm)

SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – Steve Brown Band

(8pm)

CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia

SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm)

SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans

SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon

CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia

SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi

TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions

THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and

COLONNADES TAVERN – Memory Lane Trivia

(7.30pm)

TEARO WINERY – Billy February (1pm)

Paul Vallen

(12.30pm)

SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular and

THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior

TOWER HOTEL – Complete Trivia

CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p

Mr Whiskas

Tuesday 8th

DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night

THE GOODY – Kickstart DJs

(7.30pm)

THE KINGS BAR – DJ Yusef Wilson

DOM POLSKI CENTRE – salsa lessons (6.30pm)

THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill

(5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) THE MAID – acoustic Sunday sessions (4pm) WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm)

AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia

DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!)

TOWER HOTEL – Uni Night with DJ Dom P

WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy

BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson

EMU HOTEL – Obsession Pimps & Hos Party with DJ

TOWER TAVERN: RENMARK – Complete Trivia

(8.30pm)

CAVAN HOTEL – Complete Trivia

Jessie J (8pm)

WOOLSHED: ON HINDLEY – Creating Styles Karaoke

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Akoustic Odyssey (4pm)

CROWN & ANCHOR – Industry Night with DJs Stevie &

EXCHANGE HOTEL: GAWLER – Live Music Exchange

(9pm)

Duncan

(7.30pm)

WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

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Jack Reacher We’re supposed to be talking about Jack Reacher, script adaptor and director Christopher McQuarrie’s filming of author Lee Child’s ninth Reacher book, and yet that other movie keeps on coming up: director Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects (1994), for which McQuarrie wrote the Oscar-winning script and which, of course, fans are still arguing about today. Was it a hard act to follow?

Absolutely,” McQuarrie admits. “A blessing and a curse. It was a lot to live up to and, more importantly, when the movie came out, I believed, after the Academy Awards, that I had the opportunity to make the things that I really wanted to make. I thought I had that power but, unfortunately, what I learned very quickly was that once you win that Academy Award for a screenplay, no one is willing to let you make your movie. What they want to do is pay you more money to make their movies.”

So did McQuarrie maybe seek out Child’s permission to get Jack Reacher made?

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“Not really. The first I heard of Jack Reacher was when that book [One Shot] was presented to me. When Don [Granger, a producer] presented me with it, he had a well thought out rationale as to why One Shot was the book that would be the best introduction to this character. Killing Floor, which is the first Reacher book and maybe the one that fans wanted to see as the first Reacher film, is in literary terms a very good introduction to the character - but in cinematic terms it isn’t.

With Killing Floor you meet Reacher after the story’s already started, and he’s arrested in the first few pages and you learn about him as he’s explaining himself to the police… But in One Shot people hear about him before he enters, and it’s a much more mythic introduction.”

Was Tom Cruise always attached to the project?

“He was attached as a producer first.

When I took the project I took it with the assumption that Tom Cruise was not going to be in it… Given that this was only my second movie [as director] in 12 years, and that my first wasn’t commercially successful, I just assumed that Tom wouldn’t be in it. I was also very explicit in saying that I was only going to do this if I was allowed to direct it, and so I just thought that those factors meant that I’d be having to find someone to play Jack

Reacher. And when I gave the script to Tom in his capacity as a producer, I only wanted his notes… And then he got back to me and said, ‘I’ve read the script, and it’s great, and I don’t know who you’ve got in mind for this guy but I’d love to play him’.”

We can’t mention Tom Cruise without some vague discussion about his, ahem, baggage.

“Some people maybe have funny ideas about Tom, and before I met him I had some preconceived notions… But the truth of the matter is that if you look at my career, and how little I work and my relationship with the studio system, you can see that I’m a pretty intolerant human being. I don’t suffer fools or put up with bullshit, and I wouldn’t work with somebody if I didn’t think that they were a great person to work with [laughs]… With Tom it’s an embarrassment of riches, and you realise that there’s this very strange gulf between what the public perception of Tom is and who Tom really is.”

McQuarrie laughs when I mention that no less than hallowed filmmaker Werner Herzog turns up in a rare acting role as a sneering bad guy.

“I’d like to take credit for that, but it was a masterstroke of our casting director, Mindy Marin. I didn’t think that that would ever happen, and I was remarkably surprised when it all worked out.”

So is there a possibility McQuarrie could return for a potential sequel?

Beyond His Reach(er) So what else has Christopher McQuarrie been up to lately? Deep breath…

Jack The Giant Slayer (originally Killer): “I wrote a draft a long time ago, but it’s been rewritten many times since.”

The Wolverine: “I wrote the first two drafts of that, but Reacher took me away from it.”

All You Need Is Kill: “I came in a few weeks before production and polished [the script].”

Directing Mission: Impossible 5? “It’s very early days and I don’t know.”

Writing Top Gun 2? “No! That’s the rumour that will not die! I went to a meeting a long time ago - but that was it!”

“I would. Absolutely… But given the way that [movie] releases happen these days, I guess that I’ll know if I’m doing a sequel at about 9am the day after the film is released in America!”

WHAT: Jack Reacher WHERE: Cinemas everywhere WHEN: Now showing

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (M) Co-producer/director/co-scriptadaptor Peter Jackson (working alongside missus Fran Walsh, pal Philippa Boyens and the ubiquitous Guillermo del Toro) once stated that he wouldn’t be going back to Middle Earth after the mammoth undertaking of Lord Of The Rings, and yet, nevertheless, here we have the first of a fabulously epic, three-film-spanning, monster-crammed prequel. After a prologue that depicts the takeover of the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor by barely-seen dragon Smaug, and then another that has old Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm) penning a memoir for Frodo (Elijah Wood, briefly), we flash back 60 years to when the younger Bilbo (Martin Freeman) first met Gandalf The Grey (Ian McKellen), and was convinced to undertake a dangerous journey to reclaim Erebor with 13 rowdy dwarves ( James Nesbitt and others) led by the hallowed Thorin

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Oakenshield (a very fine Richard Armitage). And this involves run-ins with mountain trolls, stone giants, teeming masses of goblins and some very nasty and seriously vengeful orcs, as well as encounters with elves (including Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett again) and, finally, fanfavourite Gollum (Andy Serkis - duh!), a little less wizened here, but no less frightening - and uncomfortably funny.

Featuring New Zealand as Middle Earth and real acting by the returning cast and new faces, this might initially feel familiar but, nonetheless, proves most entertaining and exciting once the quest commences, with the 48fps 3D (if you’re lucky) genuinely adding depth and realism (!), Jackson again demonstrating that he sincerely knows how to use CGI (no, really), and Freeman a delightfully grumpy Bilbo, which is a welcome change from the awfully goody-goody Frodo and Sam. Mad Dog Bradley

Jacob’s Creek Outdoor Cinema Jacob’s Creek Visitor Centre, Barossa Valley Way, Rowland Flat, South Australia

Every Friday in January and February 2013 the Jacob’s Creek Visitor Centre is screening a selection of cinematic classics amongst the vines and under the stars, including King Kong, Red Dog and this week’s offering, Steven Spielberg’s animated take on Hergé’s The Adventures Of Tintin. Details: 8521 3000 or jacobscreek.com or their Facebook page.

Opel Moonlight Cinema Botanic Park

Life Of Pi (PG)

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Wreck-It Ralph (PG)

Director Ang Lee’s filming of Yann Martel’s ‘unfilmable’ book has been labelled ‘visually spectacular’, and on one level it is just that, of course, as almost nothing here is real, and just about everything is CGI or 3D FXing - and yet, somehow, it is still most impressive, and often very moving. A middleaged Pi (Bollywood star Irrfan Khan) relates his amazing experiences to an unnamed writer (Rafe Spall), and we learn of his youth in the build-up to what you know is coming: how as a child (played by Gautam Belur and Ayush Tandon) he was called ‘Piscine’ after a French swimming pool, but adopted the mathematical term ‘Pi’ as a name when his classmates kept calling him ‘Pissing’; how his family (parents Adil Hussain and Tabu) ran a zoo in Pondichery, India, and took in a fearsome tiger named, for complex reasons, Richard Parker; and how, when the family and the animals were forced to relocate to Canada, a storm hit the ship, and Pi (here played by unknown Suraj Sharma) wound up spending 227 days on a lifeboat in the Pacific with the beast (and, indeed, Sharma wound up solely carrying this mighty saga for more than half its running-time).

A fanciful story, and one that calls into question, in the style of many of Lee’s films, the whole process of storytelling, this is more than just a tiger’s tale: it’s intended as a parable about the extraordinary events that make up everyone’s life - even yours, no matter how miserable you might think it to be.

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Directed by Christopher McQuarrie (his first time in the top job since 2000’s underwhelming The Way Of The Gun) and drawn by him from One Shot, the ninth (!) book in Lee Child’s hugely popular Reacher series, this is very much a Tom Cruise movie, even if this posturing star looks weirdly made-up and blatantly hair-dyed throughout. A strikinglyhandled opening massacre leaves five dead and leads to the arrest of soldier James Barr ( Joseph Sikora), but this apparently open-and-shut case is complicated when Barr requests the presence of ‘ghost’ Jack Reacher (Cruise), a former military man now living off-the-grid and oh-so-cool in his disgust at the Army, the ‘System’ and so forth. When Reacher gets involved in the investigation and smells a rat, Barr’s attorney Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike) is increasingly convinced, and McQuarrie has quite a time trying to not let them succumb to romantic cliché and dragging out a mystery that ropes in rather too many contrivances and bad guys (even though one of these is played, in a film-buffy touch, by arthousey filmmaker Werner Herzog in a rare acting role, and glaring out through a fake dead eye).

McQuarrie has stated that he doesn’t want his film to be associated with too much ‘’70s cynicism’, and yet there is rather a lot of that on display here anyway, especially in the ‘thereare-things-best-left-unknown’ plotting and an effectively shadowy final act. And it’s also obviously intended as the first in a potential Jack Reacharound, sorry, Reacher cinematic series, so Tom might be booked up for quite a while as he enters the darkness of his 50s.

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Talk about anxiety. With Walt Disney’s purchase of CGI animation leaders Pixar in 2006, the company’s in-house Walt Disney Animation Studios must have felt intense pressure. Since the acquisition, Pixar have released Up, Toy Story 3 and Brave. And Pixar’s sister production company Walt Disney Animation Studios? Their ledger includes the less impressive Meet The Robinsons, The Princess And The Frog and Winnie The Pooh: The Movie.

Any sense of Walt Disney Animation Studios as the ugly and abandoned half-brother ends with Wreck-It Ralph, a CGI film that stands tall beside genius Pixar animations such as The Incredibles, Finding Nemo and Toy Story.

As with Toy Story, Wreck-It Ralph’s wistful deification of childhood runs parallel with a kid-friendly explosion of colour. Opening as a lovingly-crafted paean to old school Nintendo arcade games, title character Ralph ( John C Reilly) is sick of playing the villainous lunk to Fix-It Felix Jr ( Jack McBrayer, in typically eager nerd mode). Breaking the rules by escaping the confines of his game in Litwak’s Arcade, the 8-bit deserter finds himself in racing game Sugar Rush, a hybrid of Bratz and Mario Kart. Buddying up with glitching, cute-as-a-button outcast Vanellope Van Schweetz (Sarah Silverman), these outsiders flip their pixel-popping worlds upside down and turn the Pantone scale up to 11 in a spirited finale. Featuring amusing cameos from familiar game characters such as Sonic The Hedgehog and Street Fighter’s Zangief, Wreck-It Ralph is packed full of more gems than Level 99 of Columns. It’s wreckin’ awesome. Your move, Pixar.

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The Opel Moonlight Cinema phenomenon continues in Botanic Pk, with: late lamented director John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club (M) on Thu Jan 3; Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (PG) on Fri Jan 4; Ben Affleck’s muchacclaimed Argo (M) on Sat Jan 5; Sacha Gervasi’s Anthony-Hopkins-starring Hitchcock (M) on Sun Jan 6; Ben Lewin’s very fine The Sessions (MA) on Tue Jan 8; and Joss Whedon’s fan-celebrated The Avengers (M) on Wed Jan 9. All details about the whole Moonlight experience: moonlight.com.au.

Recently Released And Already Rated Love Is All You Need (M) ***1/2 Les Misérables (M) ***1/2 Parental Guidance (PG) **1/2 Paris-Manhattan (PG) **1/2 The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (M) **** Pitch Perfect (M) *** Quartet (M) *** Samsara (M) **** Skyfall (M) ****

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Ghost Ships

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We spent many a balmy summer night at Two Ships in 2012, Twin St’s former basement bar. While the pint-sized watering hole is now doomed to become a parking lot, it seems it takes more than hotel renovations to quash the ideas of some of our brightest hospitality minds. Luke Davey, the brains behind the former venue, has revelled in the closure, the sudden fork in the road leading him to recently unveil Grenfell St’s newest and most exciting balcony bar Ghost Ships.

Situated on the second floor of the Crown & Anchor Hotel, Ghost Ships is a brand new venue boasting top shelf cocktails, beers, live music from local bands and a brand new kitchen element. Like Two Ships, but bigger and now with tasty nighttime snacks!

The foods on offer include wooden boards of sliced meat, cooked on-site on the Webber. They are served with labna, cucumber dill, nigella seeds, bread and pickles, and the variations are currently lamb backstrap and beef skirt. There’s also a vegetarian option, too.

As always, the cover charge is dirt cheap, costing you just $5 on Saturdays and Fridays after 9pm. When the temperature soars above 35C, we know what balcony we’re going to be sitting on with a frosty gin firmly in hand.

WHAT: Ghost Ships Bar WHERE: Level 2, above Crown & Anchor Hotel WHEN: Thu 6pm – midnight, Fri 6pm – 3am, Sat 9pm – 3am, Sun 4pm – 9pm INFO: 8223 3212

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Ginger’s Vintage Lounge Bar 109 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood Opening in January

One of the best places to get a breakfast burger, Ginger’s Coffee Studio on Goodwood Rd, is expanding in January to introduce a brand new lounge and bar out the back. Entitled Ginger’s Vintage Lounge Bar, the new section will be open seven days including Friday and Saturday nights and will serve up wine, beer and cocktails. Renovations are underway as we speak.

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Opening in January

There’s a big lull walking in between Press* and eateries down the western end of Waymouth St. That is until Barrio Uno opens in January, which will offer hungry patrons who’ve strayed too far into the middle a delicious Italian dinner option.

Located at the back of Queens Theatre, Barrio Uno’s menu will feature an assortment of foods like aperol prosecco cocktails, charcuterie plates, cassoulet and artisan cheeses. Most impressive is the giant white pizza wood oven located in the middle of the dining floor that will serve organic sourdough pizzas on weekends.

It’ll be firing as a Fringe venue in February, so poke your head in.

As lovers of wine, we’re pretty excited to swill a glass of red in this place. Introducing Cantina Sociale, a brand new wine bar located on Sturt St manned by a winning trio of foodies including Justin Lane (Alpha Box & Dice winery), Angie Bignell (Cibo) and Georgie Rogers (El Choto).

The venue is small and can only seat 40 punters, so you’ll want to squeeze in there early for a predinner drop. There will also be a small tasting area on barrels at the front so you can get to know your wines intimately. Cantina Sociale will be open Wednesday to Sundays from 4pm until late and will officially open in January.

The Clever Little Tailor 19 Peel St, Adelaide Opening in February

The coffee gurus at Coffee Branch have had their heads down for the past five months tirelessly working on what will soon be Peel St’s answer to Udaberri – a slick, wooden and intimate hole-in-the-wall bar called The Clever Little Tailor, or CLT for short.

Situated next to Format, the bar will specialise in salty, uncooked bar food and cocktails.When the Udaberri line is too long, it’ll be just a short skip and jump away.

It’s looking to open in late February.

Beard & Brau Golden Paw As Australia’s interest in craft brewing morphs from youthful curiosity into ‘Single White Female’ territory I think it’s important to have a look at the guys who had the kahunas to dip their toe in the proverbial keg before the boom.

Beard & Brau have been producing quality beers of unrivalled consistency for some time. The Golden Paw Pale Ale is their flagship brew; dry and bitter but with some stone fruit and floral notes too. Careful hopping has ensured that there are delicate grassy aromas on the nose with a fresh acidity without it being overworked or losing sight of its malty base.

Grab a pub beef burger (you know, the kind you can’t really eat with your hands) and tap your feet to the Stray Cats.

Cheers.

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 With Mars in Aquarius, you are bound to be doing things differently. If there’s any chance of going up a left-hand path, you will go. The moment you see a flock of sheep, you’ll run counter to them – and it will annoy you if they follow you.

You are not a herd animal.

The full moon is having a very direct effect on Scorpios.

It is likely to provide the momentum required to drag you through any situations that have ground to a halt, for one reason or another. This is an existential gift to be received gratefully. Jettison the habit of reluctance.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 Venus and Mercury continue to fire you up with insight and energy. There is a tendency for your unbridled enthusiasm to tread on toes. This leads you to being at loggerheads with people you intended to have as allies. The full moon should help you to ease any hiccups.

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Virgo 23.08/22.09 It seems you have your eye out for genuine insight. You aren’t content to endlessly bide your time. It is in your interest to keep things moving in powerful and creative ways. The organisation you are involved in is in need of regeneration.

A fresh perspective will do wonders.

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Crowd Theory Adelaide Crowd Theory Adelaide is a large-scale public photographic event at Victoria Square/ Tarndanyangga that will take place in February. Anyone who has an attachment to the Square - current, recent or historical - is invited to be a part of this public display of

image. It is entirely up to you how you wish to represent yourself - all you need to do is be there on the night.

So, what to expect? The information we have so far is that on one date in February Victoria Square will be transformed

into a giant film set with lights, soundtrack, catering and a camera.

The event will then be followed by an exhibition and artwork archive of project at Samstag Museum Of Art in May 2013. Intriguing.

Keep up to date on their website at crowdtheoryadelaide.com.

It’s a full moon in Cancer.

Nobody is more in its line of influence than your good self.

With awareness, you have a chance to integrate your anti-dependent side, with your dependent side. Neither clinging nor unrestrained aloofness are good. Be whole and responsive.

Leo 23.07/22.08 The moon is full. This is an intriguing full moon for Leos.

It highlights the push and shove between our need for connectivity and independence.

The more you can stand on your feet, the more you will feel safe to melt and flow in intimacy.

Life is intrinsically paradoxical.

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Scorpio 24.10/21.11

Cancer 22.06/22.07 It’s a full moon in Cancer. You could hardly wish for anything more. The universal tides are pulling in your direction, giving you juice, energy and enough madness to push you into creative action. Expand, stretch, play and open. Your shell will be eclipsed by your sensitivity.

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Slowly and silently you are moving into a position of influence. This is more than you having charmed yourself into a plum role. Life is putting the keys in your hands and asking you to drive. Though it feels like you are being thrown in at the deep end, you will swim.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 There’s plenty of energy available. You have the wind in your sails. Point yourself in the right direction and go for it. What could be more simple?

Watch for the tendency to complicate matters. Laugh at that part of yourself should it try to get a leg in. Forward ho!

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05 To really be yourself, the truth has to be taken into account.

Whether your job is to receive it, or deliver it, there’s a good chance your tendency to go for comfort and contentment is going to be at least marginally rattled. This is the best kind of rattled. It will rejuvenate you.

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Aquarius 20.01/18.02 Mars is firing up your engines and sending you down your destined path, at speed.

Thankfully life has placed a fine sense of humour in your pocket, which makes all misfires loveable and forgivable.

Though feeling uprooted, this hunt for fresh foundations will bear fruit.

Pisces 19.02/20.03 The full moon in Cancer makes you dance. The universe is making a very loud statement, supporting your watery, intuitive take on things. A flow can’t be organised in quite the same way a pallet of bricks can be. You will never be a pallet of bricks. Vive le difference!

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11 Frome St, Adelaide Revenue And Roadkill Sun Jan 6 – Fri Feb 1

15 Peel St, Adelaide Feathers Wec Jan 9 – Sun Feb 10

Using elements of drawing, painting and installation, artist Zoe Brooks has created an exhibition based on subverting the complexities that surround chaotic contemporary lifestyle in Revenue and Roadkill. Inspired

by Australian landscape elements while driving through Victoria and New South Wales, Brooks has combined dark paint strokes and blurred forms to encompass an idea of existence and development.

Opening: Sun Jan 6 at 2pm

Feathers is a multidisciplinary art show with over 23 emerging and established artists involved from all areas of the arts. Jewellery, photography, drawing, sculpture and more will be displayed in a giant nest built from wooden poles and chicken wire as the audience is encouraged to decorate the wire walls. The exhibition will feature Vera Ada, Dan Purvis, Alyshia Eming, Fruszi Kinez, Ryan Wakelin and more.

Opening: Wed Jan 9 at 6pm

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Ziggy Jeans Go Back To The ‘90s The ‘90s are not dead, which may or may not be a blessing. Those who embraced happy pants, clashing prints and pop colours can rejoice upon their return with a modern denim twist. The collection sees new additions to Ziggy’s denim print repertoire, being Skulls & Roses - a print that features exactly what it says - and Bombay Rock - a ‘refreshed’ take on Will Smith’s Fresh Prince Of Belair days. While a blast to the nottoo-distant past is a fun alternative for summer, there are still staple pieces in the collections that

flush with this season’s trends, such as neon and acid wash. Ziggy’s philosophy is to make jeans that are good quality, that you can wear to death and don’t cost a buttload, and for under $90 you can afford to take a time warp and not regret it financially. Ziggy’s prints are unisex and come in fits for both guys and girls, meaning those who want to look totally cute in a Saved By The Bell way can totally deck themselves out in his’n’her prints. Totally.

For stockists visit ziggydenim.com.

Like a patient old friend that can be called upon at any time, a watch stays by you with every moment in life. It seems only fitting then that new Australian watch label, Moment Watches, is inspired solely by stories of love, relationships and new beginnings.

Australian artist John Freeman partnered exclusively to create the label’s first collection, which he suggests “reflects self-expression and individuality” by “capturing unique moments in a selection of bold illustrations”. Freeman’s collection comes in three ‘stories’, being the Gift Of Love, the Gift Of Friendship and the Gift Of A New Relationship. If you need a present to impress – or a gift to make a sincere

apology after perhaps a less-than-impressive festive season – these may just do the trick.

Considering they come in both men’s and women’s designs with interchangeable wristbands in leather and glow-in-the-dark synthetics, these watches are sure to become the next his’n’hers craze amongst the fashion and art worlds. And since each watch is made with a rubber coated case, water resistant up to 30 metres, comes with both a leather and rubber strap and is only $90, it’s cheaper – and more mobile – than accumulating your own art collection.

For more info and stockists visit momentwatches.com. RRP $90.

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Ted Baker For Rundle Place Late last year it was announced that a leading lifestyle brand for the sophisticated ladies and gentlemen, Ted Baker, will be making a new home in the new Rundle Place shopping centre. Founded in 1988 in Glasgow and spreading throughout the UK, Ted Baker has become a brand synonymous with London’s penchant for high street etiquette and class, dominating the niche market for

semi-formal and neat casual dress codes.

This will surely bring a touch of class with the London retailer finding a home in Adelaide at the $385 million redevelopment of the old Harris Scarfe site. Rundle Place is looking to open for business in March. In the meantime, take a look at some of what we can expect from Ted Baker when it finally comes to Adelaide. tedbaker.com

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Todd And The Book The Barrens Of Pure Evil: Series 2 Paramount Transmission / MA / 87 Mins

Bernie Madman / M / 104 Mins

Hopscotch / MA / 290 Mins

The second season of creators Craig David Wallace, Charles Picco and Anthony Leo’s Manitoba-shot, comedic/semi-horrific brainchild plays a bit like Buffy, if the entire cast of that one were even more obsessed with sex - and weirdos and/or morons too.

Doofus metalhead Todd (Alex House) is still supposedly the prophesied ‘Evil One’, and he regularly joins forces with self-obsessed crush Jenny (Maggie Castle), odd best pal Curtis (Bill Turnbull) and super-nerd Hannah (Melanie Leishman) in their continuing attempts to track down the titular book (sort of like Evil Dead’s Necronomicon crossed with a giant moth), as Satanic guidance counsellor Atticus Murphy (Chris Leavins) tries his best to stop them and Greek Choruslike janitor Jimmy ( Jason ‘Jay’ Mewes) turns up to offer helpful advice and encouragement in between joints. And along the way they encounter zombified senior citizens, a cheerleader-eating monster, a dangerously sleazy invisible student (in an episode entitled See You Later, Masturbator), a killer birthday cake and, eventually, a deliberately lame computer-game-type fantasy world and a foul-mouthed muppet in an episode crudely called Fisting Fantasy. Special features include featurettes, selected commentary and more.

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Written and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman during a period of workaholic schlock horroring (that also resulted in Saw II, III and IV, Repo! The Genetic Opera and that dire remake of Mother’s Day), this plodding psychodrama/monster movie (or maybe not) is too confused, tawdry and just damn silly to be frightening. Richard Vineyard (dour Stephen Moyer from True Blood) decides that the time is right to scatter his dad’s ashes and takes his semi-estranged family to the Wharton State Pine Barrens to do just that, and although missus Cynthia (Mia Kirshner), daughter Sadie (Allie MacDonald) and son Danny (Peter DaCunha) are worried about Richard’s odd behaviour, what freaks them all out the most is the possible presence of ‘The Jersey Devil’ (a supposedly ‘genuine’ paranormal/cryptozoological beast, like Bigfoot or the Mothman, that tends to turn up in nonsense like this). And after much running around, ooga-booga plotting and irritatingly dark photography, we’re eventually wondering: is Stephen seriously sick or is he dangerously remembering some past familial horror or is he murdering incidental characters or are they all being stalked by a barely-seen creature that’s part-vulture, part-animatronic-cow-skeleton and partclotheshorse?

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Co-writer/director Richard Linklater’s first outing since Me And Orson Welles is an intriguingly dark, cautiously factual drama that’s often funny but isn’t, in fact, a comedy.

Jack Black’s Bernie Tiede, a friendly if strange guy of obscure Arkansas origins (and unclear sexuality), arrived in the town of Carthage, Texas, in the ‘90s and talked his way into an assistant funeral director job, a gig that allowed him to befriend many elderly women, including, after the death of her moneyed husband, the hated Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). When Bernie and Marjorie became inseparable friends (although many believed that the pair were lovers), they travelled the world and spent lots of money until, two years later, the bond turned toxic and, after Marjorie mysteriously disappeared, Bernie was suspected of murder by DA Danny Buck Davidson (Matthew McConaughey).

With actual townspeople who knew the real Bernie in interviews (and at times appearing as themselves with the actors), Linklater’s film is given genuine chutzpah by Black, who also starred in the director’s School Of Rock, was approved of by the real Tiede and isn’t afraid to look porky, ridiculous and camp. And he can dance… well, sort of. Special features include Black performing Amazing Grace and more.

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The Sapphires The Sapphires is an inspirational and heartwarming tale set in the late ‘60s about a quartet of young, talented singers from a remote Aboriginal mission who are given the chance to entertain the troops in Vietnam. Starring Jessica Mauboy, Deborah Mailman and Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), The Sapphires is now available on Blu-ray and DVD. If you’re feeling lucky, log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Jan 10.

Lockout Lockout follows a falsely convicted exgovernment agent (Guy Pearce), whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President’s daughter (Maggie Grace) from rioting convicts at an outer space maximumsecurity prison. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of five copies of Lockout on DVD. Competition closes at midday on Thu Jan 10.

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Sophisto-Punk: The Story Of Mark Opitz And Oz Rock Mark Opitz (With Luke Wallis And Jeff Jenkins) / Ebury Press / 361pp / $34.95

Pro music producer Opitz’s memoir suffers from two problems: 1) like Keith Richards’ Life, it’s an extended interview, and 2) while it goes without saying that he’s a legend, he nevertheless says it. Skimming over his youth, Mark soon gets to the good stuff, as he details his ’60s/‘70s apprenticeship with Harry Vanda and George Young and then, as the ‘80s approached, he began to make his name with major bands including Cold Chisel, INXS and those Angels in their prime, and other labours with Australian Crawl, Models, a bad-blood Hoodoo Gurus and more. And yet much of this is upstaged when he reminisces about an attempt to get Bob Dylan to perform for the 2001 Oscars via satellite from Melbourne’s Channel 9 studios, as the ever-eccentric Bob got everything wrong until two seconds before airtime and then played brilliantly, despite the ‘Vincent Price moustache’.

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Prince Matt Thorne / Faber / 592pp / $35

Despite its simplicity, this tome’s title is a frustrating misnomer. Painstakingly extensive research has provided Prince devotee Thorne with a thorough overview of the artist’s musical forays, yet the award-winning English biographer fails to shed much light on the enigmatic ways of Prince Rogers Nelson away from the public eye. Equipped with an exhaustive knowledge of the Prince archive, Thorne lusts over unrealised epics such as the Dream Factory album and proves a judgmental observer with his ludicrously unequivocal declarations: “Between 2001 and 2004, Prince became, once again, the most exciting musician in the US”. Really? Interesting facts are presented (Bob Marley refused to collaborate with Prince since he thought him a “batty boy”, Martin Scorcese was asked to direct the dire Prince flick Under The Cherry Moon), but all too often the tone is arduous and evasive; there’s little spotlight shone on Prince’s strong religious beliefs, his marriages or the various legal battles he’s sanctioned. Sadly the mysterious Purple One remains perplexing.

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1227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off

The Haunted Book

John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin / Faber / 322pp / $19.99

Dyson, co-creator of TV’s The League Of Gentlemen, ghost story lover, paranormal enthusiast and one-time sufferer of nervous conditions, ostensibly sets out here to offer the facts behind a series of famous ‘true-life’ UK hauntings and then, with the help of one Aiden Fox (a real person?), elaborate upon the details behind them in a fanciful fashion.

However, sometimes ingeniously, sometimes frustratingly and sometimes frighteningly, he (actually?) personally involves himself in the study, so as he journeys to a house supposedly haunted by a phone call from beyond, a beach where the unquiet spirit of a lost sailor might wander and the ruins of a genuine (?) asylum where a mysterious figure watches, it becomes harder and harder to work out what is and isn’t real, and when he begins including chapters from (actual?) rare books that mirror his own ominous experiences, the only conclusion is that the book you’re reading is indeed haunted - or at least losing it.

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Another tie-in with TV’s endlessly popular (and repeated) QI series, this has a nice intro wherein John, John and James encourage us to read every book we can get our hands on and then switches to those 1227 facts, none of which quite blow one’s socks off - but nearly.

Following vague patterns, at times, we’re invited to ponder truths regarding, for example, celebrities (Tennessee Williams choked on a bottle cap), diseases (most American leprosy sufferers contracted the affliction from armadillos), the animal kingdom (herrings basically communicate via farting), the natural world (lava travels as fast as a greyhound), and assorted you’d-never-believe-it-type browslappers, including how the Swahili word for ‘coconut’ is ‘nazi’, moon dust smells like gunpowder, there are only two beret factories left in France, Vatican City ATMs offer instructions in Latin, ‘quantophrenia’ means an over-reliance on statistics and, in case anyone ever needs to know, Japanese sheep go ‘meh’.

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Ball Park Music

The Killers

Museum (EMI)

Here With Me (UMA)

The sun will set at 8.28pm on Fri Jan 25, which coincides perfectly with The Killers closing their set at Adelaide’s Big Day Out. The Las Vegas group have plenty of atmospheric paeans tailor-made to soundtrack a cool breeze blowing in from the east as the sun disappears in the west, but none beat the wistful passion of new single Here With Me. A Battle Born power ballad to rival the best of Hot Fuss and Sam’s Town, this co-write by Brandon Flowers and Travis frontman Fran Healy holds a romantic beauty that will have the Adelaide Showground swooning. Fortified by a Tim Burton music video featuring Winona Ryder as the muse and the kid from Submarine channelling Max Schreck, these next three weeks can’t pass quick enough.

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Blur

Chet Faker

Parklive (EMI)

Archangel (Remote Control)

Chet Faker’s cover of Burial’s Archangel drifts into focus like sand whipping across a cold and grey beach. With minimalist analogue keys and guitar effects listlessly lapping at Faker’s desperately aching voice, it’s closer to southern gospel than South London dubstep. When the drums kick in for the track’s energised second phase of construction, it proves Faker is a master builder. The warm keyboards, despairing vocals and accelerating percussion plot a collision-course that ends in a brilliant supernova. It might be a stop-gap cover, but Archangel confirms 2013 will be Chet Faker’s year. Just call him Angel Of The Mourning.

Dave Grohl & Paul McCartney Cut Me Some Slack (Sony)

December proved a good month for formidable old buggers back in the saddle and busting balls. While Led Zeppelin sat perched at the top of the music and DVD charts with their outstanding live set Celebration Day, Paul McCartney burst onto the stage at the 121212 concert for a Nicest Guy In Rock showdown with Dave Grohl.

The studio version of their collaboration Cut Me Some Slack sounds even better here, featuring a meatier constitution than you’d expect from a septuagenarian who naffly titled his 2012 album Kisses On The Bottom. The Nirvana love buzz surrounding this release perhaps excuses the guitar solo sounding like a garage amateur learning how to bend his E string, but essentially this is a Helter Skelter belter. Heavy, man.

Bob Sinclar Groupie (UMA)

A completely appropriate song title, since this wholeheartedly blows.

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London’s Olympics officially ended with the Olympic Park Closing Ceremony on Sat Aug 12, but it was really 10 miles down the road where Great Britain’s two weeks of glory culminated in an uplifting finale. Three years after playing a misty-eyed reunion show in Hyde Park, Blur’s return coincided with national pride reaching a swollen zenith not observed since

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Britpop’s glory days.

Dressed like a high street scamp in low-slung jeans, frontman Damon Albarn undertakes his own version of Olympic challenges during the marathon performance – high jumps on Jubilee, a 100-metre dash on The Universal and a hop, step and jump into the crowd during Trimm Trabb. That song’s line about ‘all the losers on the piss again’ sounds less venomous on this DVD and CD souvenir, with Albarn mingling with his rowdy rabble of SW1 constituents and foisting a Union Jack skyward.

Performing under a model of the Westway could have added a Spinal Tap element to proceedings, but the set avoids jazz odysseys in favour of a golden run to rival Mo Farra. Popscene is dispatched with ragged and sweaty punk determination, Tender delivers gospel godliness and the ringing bells of newcomer Under The Westway suggests the melancholy modern-day detachment of He Thought Of Cars. The culmination of The Universal sees Albarn shocked into immobility and shedding a tear as he soaks in the warmth of a country united on an English summer night.

Blur are back. Hallelujah, sing it out loud.

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After a flurry of praise, awards and sold-out shows, Brisbane five-piece Ball Park Music have released their second album less than a year after their debut. The band’s devotion to their craft has spawned Museum, 12 songs that undoubtedly draw comparison to their first release.

More often than not, it can be years before a band records new material, so it would seem that Ball Park Music is following the ethos of bands like The Beatles; write constantly and head to the studio every six to 12 months. The band’s hard work has resulted in an album that sounds polished and complete, a collection of songs that complement each other lyrically and stylistically in the same way Happiness And Surrounding Suburbs did.

Museum, however, is not a rehash of Happiness, nor is it Happiness 2.0.

The success that the band’s first record enjoyed was due to its goofy, balls to the wall, feet on the dancefloor exuberance.

Although the same witty lyrics and catchy arrangements are present, Museum is decidedly more sombre. If Happiness was the party, Museum is the morning after.

Windows are broken, there are bottles everywhere and someone vomited in your bed.

Ryan Lynch

Cirque Du Soleil’s Ovo The Grand Chapiteau, Tambawodli, Thu Dec 6 Review by Catherine Blanch Pics by Andreas Heuer

Portuguese for ‘egg’, Cirque Du Soleil’s Ovo takes the audience into the tiny world of bugs. From the egg springs new life and the interactive – and occasionally comical – lives of insects. Colourful and very lifelike costumes serve to enhance the beauty of the performance by gifted acrobats, contortionists, aerial artists, trampolinists, jugglers and musicians.

Bug-catching has never been so stylish.

Ovo re-creates an intricate underground maze that is the secret world of all things creepy-crawly; a stage setting that is almost as intriguing as the performers themselves.

The clever stage designs allow many of the creatures to pop-up and disappear in an instant, while the surrounding flowers that bloom are nothing short of beautiful.

The pink lady fleas are astounding in their balancing abilities and the foot-juggling ants are more than impressive. The flying scarabs easily induce jaws to drop and they claim ownership over the skies in complete defiance of gravity. The hand-balancing dragonfly makes manoeuvring around the pole seem completely effortless, as do the contortionist

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Quick Ones

Green Day ¡Dos! (Reprise/Warner)

Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra

Tigertown Before The Morning EP (Independent)

Midnight Oil Essential Oils (Sony)

Theatre Is Evil

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong promised that this second album in an ambitious trilogy would be the party record. True – if your parties simply require background music. Anyone expecting the band to kick it up a notch after the formulaic ¡Uno!, however, will be bemused by the hushed vocal and guitar of See You Tonight, sedate (and badly misnamed) Wild One or stripped back Amy. Even when the quartet does bring some energy to proceedings, the results are far from typical.

While some archetypal Green Day punk songs appear in the album’s second half (Ashley, Lady Cobra), Fuck Time is retro ’50s rock‘n’roll with profanity, Makeout Party sounds like a garage band playing Holland-Dozier-Holland’s Leaving Here, and the vibrant and jangly Stray Heart nods to The Jam’s A Town Called Malice.

The biggest surprise, however, is Nightlife, an atmospheric dance pop number featuring a female rapper.

In other words, while ¡Uno! was so familiar that it frequently sounded like Green Day covering their own songs, ¡Dos! often feels a different band entirely.

While it’s still not an album I’d put on at my own parties, a few tracks might make the playlist, and Green Day deserve credit for managing to deliver something unexpected.

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spiders that move through their web with the skill of real spiders – especially the acrobat performing on the slack wire. Amazing!

The silk-rope duo is truly beautiful as they grow from larvae to butterflies and the skill of the firefly on the diabolos is pretty damn cool. But it’s the trampolining finale by the crickets that will leave you truly speechless.

The cockroach orchestra and vocalists are flawless and they take us through the gamut of emotions from quiet and tender to the loud and chaotic. The band is as much a part of Cirque Du Soleil as the performers are and one would not be the same without the other.

The love story between the unusual and somewhat gawky egg-toting ‘Foreigner’ and the perky ladybug is very entertaining and endearing, with this comic relief trio being completed by the eccentric but respected leader of the insects, Master Flipo. But it’s the part-insect/part-slinky ‘Creatura’ that I loved most of all, as it stretched and wobbled and danced to the beat of his own drum.

Cirque Du Soleil’s Ovo moves effortlessly between the subtle and the dramatic. In those moments when there was no applause, it wasn’t because the show wasn’t worthy, but because the audience were so captivated by the enjoyment of the moment they couldn’t even consider clapping their hands. Beautiful costumes, stunning performers and fabulous musicianship make for an amazing night within the Grand Chapiteau.

OVO continues at Tambawodli at various times until Sun Jan 6.

(8 Ft Records)

Raunchy, raw and heavy with horns, this is a barroom brawl in a corset. It thunders past in a storm of sex, death, love and rotten, dirty fun, and just as you think you’ve worked it out, the band has a breakdown and produces something vulnerable and tender.

Amanda Fucking Palmer’s ferocious vocals pair perfectly with the brass-andtumble backing of The Grand Theft Orchestra. Album toppers include Do It With A Rockstar, Lost and Want It Back for being sheer carnival-rock spectaculars. The band’s fractured lullaby tracks like Grown Man Cry and Trout Heart Replica are equally impressive.

The album comes with a fun ‘Spot The Pop Culture Reference’ game to play. Here’s a hint – listen for wonky My Sharona riffs in Melody Dean (which also features a triumphant trumpet fanfare, a drunken synth section and staccato lyrics to breathlessly chant).

Theatre Is Evil has elements of Amanda Palmer’s famous smash-a-keyboardand-scream style, but The Grand Theft Orchestra brings so much more texture and excitement to the tracks. Further proof that everything is better with trumpets.

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There is just something about these tigers. There are a lot of bands kicking around with a similar sound, but none that sound this good. Hailing from western NSW, six-piece Tigertown have delivered the follow-up to their 2011 EP, hosting rhythms that gallop deep into your memories and dig out some emotions that have been trapped in there for a while.

Tigertown initially blossomed when the band members were ridiculously young, but as their number has expanded so too has their sound. Before The Morning finds their undying passion for old-school folk shaping their every step. These five tunes generate a certain curiosity within, allowing your mind to transport itself to a better place - even if it’s just for a moment.

These are tunes that beckon you to run away into the wilderness. Who knows you might even see a tiger there. The track Monsters is a highlight, so do yourself a favour and chuck that little beast on repeat.

The band’s interconnected chemistry shines through, giving their sound a deep intimacy among the sugar-coated harmonies. Before the morning comes, promise me you will have listened to this little gem. If not, I’ll hunt you down.

Seriously.

Sharni Honor

Midnight Oil played country music – but not in the way that term implies. From the suburban visage of Lucky Country through to the beach culture of Surf ’s Up Tonight, they summed up the contradictions of our land perfectly. Radio staples Power And The Passion, Beds Are Burning and Short Memory have seared a caricature of the Oils into the collective consciousness, but Essential Oils gives 36 different hues to this astonishing group. Put Down That Weapon and One Country proved that even the band’s less forceful tracks still hit hard, with their loving paeans to Australia as strong as their dusty displays of anger. Instrumental Wedding Cake Island set the tone for later Oils spin-off The Break, while the power simmers like a highway’s heat shimmer on songs such as The Dead Heart. A grand compendium of a golden age.

Scott McLennan

Patrick Wolf Sundark And Riverlight (Liberator)

The UK’s Patrick Wolf is 28 years old, and that means that he has been in the music biz for 10 whole years! To celebrate this landmark, Wolf has bestowed upon us Sundark And Riverlight, a double album of reworked songs from his previous records.

Despite being wholly unnecessary, the biggest fault of Sundark And Riverlight is its inability to capture the theatrical style that Wolf has cultivated over the last 10 years. The only thing that justifies this album’s existence is that it is a weird, self-congratulatory anniversary gift for himself. It is nothing more than a cover album of his own songs, a smug twist on the greatest hits cash grab. The only people who are going to be buying this one are those retarded diehard fans who refer to themselves collectively as “the Wolfpack”.

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Moving Music

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by Miranda

You’ve probably heard of Moving Music.

Some of your mates probably went on it last year, or even played in an alleyway cardboard fortress as part of it. For those growing more curious about this ingenious walkabout music festival, your chance to comb the Adelaide streets to secret gig locations with a throng of 200 punters is coming up this Sat Jan 19. Read on.

Manned by Sam Wright, an opportunistic youth with his thinking cap permanently in overdrive, the 2013 Moving Music tour will pick up from last year’s success with an expanded line-up of visual artists, local musicians and DJs and a dinner event in the

late evening from food gurus The Happy Motel. With the date fast approaching, Rip It Up chatted with the promoter and organiser about what we can expect this time.

“I guess you can expect what you shouldn’t expect,” Wright offers cryptically. “You should expect to be placed into something that will make you feel excited, uncomfortable, shy and happy. We love to test our audiences and give them new ideas to appreciate visual art, music and design. Expect the unexpected.”

Aside from a date, a location and a line-up, all other details of the tour remain under wraps. The only information so far is instructions to meet outside the Exeter Hotel at 2.30pm on the day, yet Wright offers Rip It Up a few clues on where punters can expect to be taken.

“There will be seven spaces altogether, and you’ll be taken anywhere from a park to an

alleyway, through a garden, maybe mixed into a walking band parade and then a venue space that hasn’t been used for years,” he says.

Punters will be led to impromptu stage set-ups to watch live sets from locals including Atlantic Street Band, Wild Oats, Hurricanes, The Timbers and Oisima. But the acts won’t just be playing on any old milk crate or cardboard box – enter the visual artists. This year the tour has enlisted the finger skills of local creatives like Gary Seaman and Joshua Smith to construct ‘stages’ in each mystery location.

“One of the locations has a medieval theme, so we’re going to build a temporary castle structure for artists to paint their artwork on…” Wright hints.

If you’ve already secured yourself a ticket to this unique local event, Wright has one piece of advice for you. Wear comfortable shoes.

“You’ll be sitting, dancing and walking…

it’s a pretty active tour, so I’d recommend that girls don’t wear high heels,” he laughs.

“The tour is about being in a community and enjoying what this city has to offer.”

“It’s not a WOMAD or some other amazingly run festival. Moving Music is about experiencing music in the absolute urban environment, which is beautiful and something we believe in massively. We want to keep pushing that.”

Higham began to work on his solo venture. He was drawn to eMDee’s unique combination of sounds and the energy they drew from their crowds. After that, it was a case of finding his own musical flair, and perfecting it.

“I had the idea in my head of the sound and vibe I wanted to create but it wasn’t until mid 2011 that I began to piece it all together.”

Now, days away from his EP launch, Higham is pretty proud of his work. Produced

by Wayne Ringrow at Chapel Lane Studios,

enChanted is ready to fly. Reminiscent of Xavier Rudd but with a stronger dancefloor focus, the EP is a fine collection of Higham’s tribal-tinged dance music.

Supported by Ciaram Granger and James Abberley, the launch is set to be a good night. After all, he may be a one-man band, but Higham is no lonely soul.

“I am known for leaving a couple of djembes in front of the stage to involve the crowd and bring everyone together as one at my live shows. It’s creates a real party atmosphere.”

Saying he is “blessed” to get the response from the audience he does, Higham is looking forward to the launch.

“There is always so much positive energy about. I thrive on people leaving their inhibitions at the door and enjoying the moment.”

WHAT: Moving Music WHO: Hurricanes, The Timbers, Wild Oats, Carla Lippis & The Martial Hearts, Ferris Mular, Monkey Puzzle Tree, Erin Fowler & much more WHERE: Commencing at Exeter Hotel WHEN: Sat Jan 19 at 2.30pm TICKETS: facebook.com/ musicthatmoves

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by Ilona Wa

A one-man band is traditionally an old dude in suspenders with a bass drum on his back and a harmonica superglued to his adult braces. Kym Higham, AKA Voice Of Trees, is no such cliché. Drums, vocal samples and the didgeridoo are more his style.

After travelling around Australia, picking up a didgeridoo (or Yidaki) in Byron Bay, and seeing Darwin band eMDee perform,

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