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Editor’s Note// If our annual Hot Six were a child, she’d be starting school this year. Hasn’t she grown into a charming little critter?

This is our sixth annual cover story devoted to highlighting some of the best upcoming bands we predict great things of in 2013. As with previous years, the hotly-contested list has been chosen on the basis of the gigs we’ve caught, the Soundcloud streams that have soundtracked our deadline days and the tips and whispers from our various shady scene contacts.

Given the somewhat sketchy and prognostic nature of the Hot Six, we’re the first to admit we don’t always get it correct.

Tomorrow’s hot ticket can quickly turn into yesterday’s mug of warm piss, with a quick flick through some of our previous Hot Six issues highlighting some mighty Icarus falls once the initial hype wore off.

We’ve revealed our choices for 2013, now we’re interested in hearing your two cents. As dedicated readers and fans of the Adelaide music scene, get on our Facebook and tell us which picks you agree with, who you think we’ve foolishly overlooked and which fresh-faced acts are making you slightly feverish in anticipation.

When you’re done using your defamatory digits to vent any pervading anger online, make your way to the closest live venue and check out some of Adelaide’s burgeoning talent. Chances are you’ll stumble on one of our Hot Six choices for 2014…

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1. The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations 2. Fleetwood Mac – Dreams 3. The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored 4. Pulp – Common People 5. Black Sabbath – Paranoid 6. Refused – New Noise 7. Soundgarden – Jesus Christ Pose 8. Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm 9. At The Drive-In – One Armed Scissor 10. No Doubt – Don’t Speak 11. Van Halen – Jump 12. The Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen

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Each year there comes a time when Rip It Up filters through live venues, sifts through stacks of local CDs and plants listening devices under the mosaic tables at the Exeter Hotel to determine the age-old annual question of who will be in the Hot Six. After painstaking eorts, we’ve finally got the answer. We’re proud to announce that our picks for 2013 are bluegrass outfit Dr Pie & The Burlap Band, electro troubadour No Birds, indie-poppers Archers, husky crooner Kaurna Cronin, progressive kings Sparkspitter and rockers Kids With Teeth.

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Django Unchained is the highly anticipated new film from acclaimed filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. Set during the Civil War era in the American South, Django (Academy AwardÂŽwinner Jamie Foxx), is on a mission to rescue his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) and wreak revenge (Tarantino style) on anyone that gets in his way. Also starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained opens Thu Jan 24. Log onto ripitup.com.au and enter your details for your chance to win one of 10 double in-season passes. Competition closes at midday on Thu Jan 24.

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Your fast guide to this week’s best entertainment

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See the eclectic Melbourne songstress at Grote St’s Hotel Metro on Thu Jan 17 and Cavern Club on Fri Jan 18 with fine support from Hurricane Jane, Black Fox and Lieutenant Jam at both shows.

Experience the symphonic sounds of the melodic Finnish metal band when they play songs from their new album, Imaginaerum, at HQ on Fri Jan 18 with Eyefear and Black Majesty.

Hitting Fowler’s Live on Sun Jan 20 with Deez Nuts as well as Canada’s Comeback Kid (pictured) and US band First Blood along with Hand Of Mercy and The Bride.

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Fresh from touring Africa in December, catch the electro poppers from Perth when the duo hit Rocket Bar on Fri Jan 18 with help from Miami Horror DJs.

Catch the uncompromising power rock trio from Brooklyn when they ply their musical wares at Jive on Sat Jan 19 with local band Ride Into The Sun as special guests.

Get a dose of Edith Piaf goes punk when the French combo play Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, from 9.30pm on Fri Jan 19 as part of the summer Sessions program.

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SCHÜTZENFEST – celebrate 50 years of the German shooting festival at Ellis Pk, West Tce, on Fri Jan 18 and also Sat Jan 19 with Pseudo Echo, Phil Emmanuel, Swanee and more.

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the rockin’ Aussie supergroup when they play the Governor Hindmarsh on Fri Jan 18, Old Clarendon Inn on Sat Jan 19 and Governor Hindmarsh on Sun Jan 20.

veteran US blues guitarist when he plays a free entry gig at Thebarton’s Wheatsheaf Hotel on Fri Jan 18 with JJ Fields as special guest.

rock act when they bring their highly contemporary folk, funk, jazz and blues sound to the Governor Hindmarsh on Sat Jan 19.

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JAN 18

WIL WAGNER, BEN DAVID, LINCOLN LEFEVRE, BRIANNA MAHONEY, TODD FOGARTY (BAR2) “STRIKE METAL CLUB” FROM BIRTH TO BURIAL, ETERNAL REST, NEW PARADIGM, ROAD HAUL (BAR 3)

JAN 19

Nepal’s Big Brother Is Coming More B(iz)arrio Revealed Lunch Lady, Bunga Bunga, Key To The City, Phobia, Heaven’s Gate, Diceworld, Old Maid, Animal House, Road Kill, Slumber Party. Sadly they aren’t all titles of Kevin Bacon movies, but the themes for the much-coveted 2013’s Barrio line-up. After the resounding success of last year, the “unrepeatable” event is on again, with the maze of exotic food vendors, hidden dancefloors, Gypsy marketplace, strange happenings and secret bars returning to Hajek Plaza for round two. With chances to be involved in eating contests, actual marriages,

adult naughtiness, facing your worst nightmares, ascending to other dimensions, a myriad of games, animal action and even a sleepover, you better start preparing yourself to surrender your personal space, dignity and comfort zones upon entry. The line-up will once again feature international and local performers and DJs, with Soul II Soul, DJ Hugo Mendez, Toro Y Moi, Keb Darge and The Snowdroppers just a few of the confirmed acts. Barrio is open for 10 nights during the Adelaide Festival from 9pm, with entry set at $5 a pop.

Crowned with the glory of being Nepal’s most successful recording artists ever, the folk, funk, blues, jazz and Western rock fusion of 1974 AD have quite a lot to prove. With music that aims to unite a continuously conflicted nation, 1974 AD have a more optimistic outlook than perhaps having a namesake strikingly similar to a certain dystopian Orwellian novel may imply. Having recently played to a crowd of 60,000, the largest Nepal has ever seen, the Governor Hindmarsh may make for a slightly more intimate, yet surely emotional, display of world music when the band play there on Sat Jan 19.

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JAN 26

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Given their notable absence from the recent Adelaide Parkway Drive gig after unfortunately getting stuck in Perth, NORTHLANE have added an Adelaide date to their Worldeater tour. Northlane are now playing at The Cavern on Wed Jan 23 alongside In Hearts Wake, Endless Heights and local bands Seconds Before Sunrise and The Broadside. They’re promising no flight troubles this time around, and with Sydney and Newcastle shows already sold out, it would be wise to snap these up quickly at northlane.oztix.com.au.

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A DEAD SILENCE, THE BROADSIDE, SECONDS BEFORE SUNRISE, IN ELEGANCE, WE THE FALLS (BAR 2) “TRASH DOLLS PARTY” (BAR 3)

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FEB 22

Future Sailors This may be the closest thing you’ll find to The Might Boosh’s take on genre-bending and putting ‘post’ in front of every musical genre.

But, it is the Fringe, so maybe not. Neon Bogart is a future-soul duo that couple 1920s cabaret noir with futuristic ballads, helmed

by Adam Rudegair from Fringe favourites Henry Manetta & The Trip and Jennifer Kingwell from Fringe Award winners The Jane Austen Argument. As well as performing

their original material and adding a futuristic twist to classic songs like Herman Hupfield’s As Time Goes By and Nick Cave’s Red Right Hand as a part of their Fringe show, Neon Bogart will also be using this as a platform to release their debut EP Split/Infinity. The EP is funded completely via fans through Pozible, with rewards of VIP tickets to the Fringe season, limited edition graphic novellas and time capsules from the future for those who pledge. Be transported with Neon Bogart at the Adelaide Fringe for their EP launch from Fri Feb 15 to Sun Feb 17 at 6.15pm at Higher Ground Art Base, 188 Grenfell St.

If you see a giant echidna chugging down King William St on Australia Day, it doesn’t mean you’ve hit the red tins too hard, you’ve just stumbled on the Australia Day In The City celebrations. The street parade will lead into a free concert by the Torrens. Australian dance outfit The Potbelleez and Australian Idol alumni WES CARR will entertain the patriotic crowds, although no reports yet indicate if any Australian flags will be worn as capes onstage. The celebrations kick off with the street parade at 6pm at Victoria Square and the concert beginning at 7pm at Elder Pk.

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SEWERCIDE, IMMINENT PSYCHOSIS, HIDDEN INTENT, ALKIRA, CYCLOSA (BAR 2)

MAR 1

THE SMITH STREET BAND, HIGH TIME, THE BENNIES, THE HARD ACHES

MAR 2

“SOUNDWAVE AFTER PARTY”

Feelings Lead To Intercourse With the press release citing that Intercourse is a “sexpop number guaranteed to turn strangers into friends”, the sexual innuendo surrounding the latest Feelings release is totally orchestrated. For those not yet in touch with Feelings, the Sydney group feature former Philadelphia Grand Jury frontman Simon Berkfinger along with Dave Rennick from Dappled Cities and Art Vs Science’s percussionist Dan Williams. Self-described by Berkfinger as “freaky grunge” and set for digital release on iTunes on Fri Jan 25, Intercourse is just a taste of what else is to come, with a debut album scheduled for mid-2013. To experience some Intercourse with Feelings, check them out when they come for their single release tour at the Ed Castle on Sat Feb 16, with special guests The Viennas and tickets available at the door.

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IT INAU SPICIOUSLY B EGAN A S AN IDEA THROWN AR OU ND DURING A CIGARETTE B REAK, BUT R IP IT UP’S ANNUAL HOT SIX ISSUE H A S S I NCE BE COME A FAVOURITE DATE ON THE OFFI CE CALE NDAR. E ACH JANUARY SINCE 2008 RI P I T UP HA S PLUCKE D OU R FAVOURITE B URGEONING LOCAL ACTS FR OM THE CH URNING PUDDLE OF ADELAI DE TALENT AND THR OW N TH EM TOGETH ER FOR A SPECI AL COVER FE ATU R E. SOMETIMES OUR PICK S HAVE FOUND FAME AND FOR TU NE, OTH ER TIMES THEY ’VE IMPLODED I N A MAE LST R OM OF DRUGS, ADULTERY AND FI S T-FI GHTS. H OT DIGGITY! THIS Y E AR ’S SIX ACTS DELIVER A DIVERSE PALETTE OF SOU NDS. PORE OVER RIP IT UP’S FORM GUI DE, PLACE Y OU R BE TS A ND TH EN H EAD TO THE TRACK (OR BAR, W HICHE VE R IS EA SIEST) TO WATCH THES E NOBLE STALLIONS IN ACTION SOMETIME SOON. HOT SIX 2013: WE’RE OFF AND RA CI NG.

There’s a folkish man with voluptuous hair and an endless supply of festive shirts who has become a fond presence on the Adelaide scene. He’s Kaurna Cronin: widely acclaimed folk musician, drummer in Jimmy & The Mirrors, initiator of the Full Moon Folk concept and also part of the Jungle Babe experience. Boy, this young stallion has a lot on his plate.

After a cracking response to his 2012 EP release Feathers and receiving Triple J play with It’s a Metaphor, Cronin has managed to keep focused and look to the future, putting his past achievements behind him.

“It’s just sort of in the back of my mind, as I’m more focused on the new project but it’s nice to reflect sometimes. There are so many of those songs that I’ll listen to and be like, ‘Oh, very good, do not remember doing that’,” he admits with a charming grin.

This little firefly definitely has more projects on the horizon, with eyes gleaming as shining beacons of possibility lurk around every corner. In April he’ll release a new EP recorded late last year in Byron Bay’s 301 studios, the very place where meat-suit wearer Lady Gaga did some recording. Any chance of a Cronin and Gaga collaboration?

“Very, very, very minimal,” he offers, “but don’t rule it out though, it could happen. I have been known to put a bit of face-paint on.”

Cronin finds it complicated to describe his

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unique and signature sound.

“Well it is folkish but it’s not folk. It’s definitely got a lot of influences from folk but also just sort of rootsy, bluesy music. I like ambient sorts of sounds as well. There is a lot of that on the new CD. So I would say it’s definitely folkish, but it’s not plain folk, maybe nu-folk or nu-jungle folk.”

When one puts together nu-jungle folk and ambient sounds, surely you’d expect some form of bird song on the upcoming release?

“Not that I know of, but don’t quote me on that because you never know what’s in there.

Halfway through listening you could be like, ‘Oh shit, it’s a toucan!’.”

Cronin is definitely a projects man. Keep an eyeball out for his (unofficial) Fringe show featuring a circus tent made out of sheets, Turkish carpets and candles. What more could you want amid the monstrosity of the festival season?

“It’ll be a mix of Farm Babe and Jungle Babe, but not too farmy, like we’ll have hay bales… Which may be an issue with the open flame, but we’ll cross that bridge when it comes.”

This majestic steed of a man is a very passionate specimen. When asked what he loves most about music, he responds with a warm smile as passion melts his face.

“Expression is a massive part of it, through music, through sound and through lyrics. Not only that but collaborative work - working with other musicians or poets or anyone in the creative industry to create something magical.”

Kaurna Cronin is a man of great youth,

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yet capable of great wisdom beyond his years, which is evident through his three life mottos. “‘Sharing is caring’, ‘the more the merrier’ and ‘you look great’. You can never fail with these three, it’s a winner.”

WHO: Kaurna Cronin WHAT: Feathers (Independent) WHERE: Ed Castle (single launch) WHEN: Fri Mar 22

Feature and cover photos by Andre Castellucci / andrec.net

One of the latest additions to the locally-based Pilot Records imprint, No Birds (AKA Justin McArthur) is about to follow up his 2012 debut five-track EP, Tin Can, with a fulllength album. Big things are in store for the artist also known for his Let’s Be Modern and Question Question projects, starting with the inaugural Pilot Records mini-fest, Pilotfest 2013, this February.

“The two big things for me this year are getting the album released and playing at PilotFest,” McArthur says. “The album is going to be a full-length and I’m just in the middle of writing it. It’s similar and different to the EP – it’s still got that vastness but it delves much deeper into the ‘70s dub style of things. It’s very much what appeals to me as a producer, it’s what I’m feeling at the moment. I’ve been DJing and thrashing out heaps of ‘70s dub – heaps of Roots Manuva, heaps! – and also lots of Afrobeat, late ‘70s Nigerian stuff. I don’t know what it is about it, it’s the basslines, that polyrhythm, there’s so much going on rhythmically in that kind of music – it just gets you. Without any kind of persuasion, it makes you move.”

It’s the effect McArthur hopes his upcoming debut album will have on the general public too. And while he personally expects big things for his latest project, according to the beatsmith, the whole thing was in many ways a “complete fluke”...

“It was almost like destiny in a bizarre way,” he laughs. “It started out that they needed someone to DJ before Oisima at the Question Question EP launch, so I’m thinking, ‘What kind of stuff should I play before Anth [Wendt]?’. So I played some of the No Birds stuff because I’d had some tracks already but I’d written a few new ones to go in the set as well. So it really was this bizarre kind of snowball effect from there. I never intended to do anything with it, No Birds was just me fucking around. I’d put heaps of energy and focus into my techno productions and trying to push that, but what took off was obviously my dub stuff ! No Birds is really more me than anything else, while not really trying to be ‘anything’ in particular, if that makes sense...

It’s probably a bad term to use, but it’s the more ‘emotional’ side of myself.”

Although McArthur insists he originally never made any grand plans for his personal and private pet project, given the surge in popularity No Birds has experienced recently, the beatmaker has been increasingly thinking about the future.

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“The thing that goes with dub music is soundsystems and I’d love for there to be a No Birds Soundsystem where I can just rock up at spaces and just blast big subbed-out dub music. There’s going to be a few popup soundsystems happening over February actually, through to about [Adelaide] Fringe time. There’s one happening at the Festival Theatre’s AMP Theatre on [Friday] February 1 where they’ll have a bar and a bit of a Pilot Records ‘love-in’ featuring No Birds Soundsystem. I’m still going to be concentrating on Question Question

too, the three of us make an amazing team, it’s a bizarre meeting of minds and it just works. When the three of us are jamming and recording, we don’t even have to look at each other, we’re just improvising sounds and seeing where it takes us, which to me is really what music should be about.”

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“There’s definitely an element of novelty [to the band], with ‘piffle’ as the key word,” McCarthy says. “‘Piffle’ means nonsense, and we want to be interpreted by that kind of nonsensical jargon. Underneath that you can have as many elements as you want, and some of our newer songs have very in-depth meaning and talk about a lot of issues, but ultimately, it’s always going to be piffle. You’re always going to have James Brown yelling through a megaphone or Scott Giles doing handstands or someone juggling.”

To put this ‘piffle’ into perspective, this is what you can expect see at one of their live shows.

Imagine 13 members, most of who wear heavy beards and bare chests, slapping their thighs and yelling wildly while bearing a number of curious instruments such as the washboard and the “ugly stick” – a pole with bottle caps and a boot stuck onto it for a percussive effect.

“James Hartley’s beard is probably the most obscure instrument in the band,” Brown

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offers.

In truth, most of the members of the band have office day jobs, families, relationships and other commitments. But when it’s Piffle time, they all truly get into character.

“We’re lucky because we just based our band around a group of people that like to get together and hang out anyway. So now we get to hang out and take along sticks with bells on them and shake them around,” McCarthy jokes.

It’s interesting that Dr Piffle has ended up being so deeply rooted in the bluegrass genre, given that its core members have backgrounds in punk music.

“A couple of us went travelling and that’s where the bluegrass discovery came from,” McCarthy explains. “We were originally a punk band and then realised we could play bluegrass with the same message. When we got back to Australia one of our friends discovered a banjo under his bed, and another

friend had found a piano accordion, and it all went from there.”

Was it a difficult transition from punk to bluegrass?

“Not really, it was a pretty natural transition. They have the same core elements and it’s just what you take out of it.

Sometimes we still even warm up by playing some Pennywise.”

Following the release of their debut selftitled album last year, Dr Piffle are currently working on their sophomore release with acclaimed DFA producer and artist Surahn.

According to McCarthy, the inspiration for the second album came from a holiday in the States that saw them busking on the streets of New Orleans in the former slave quarter.

“After we toured Australia in the winter some of the core members of the band flew to America. We ended up in New Orleans and played music on the street there, all of us being in this one van that we bought for $800

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For the first time novelty bands are starting to hold a serious stake with mainstream music. Radio heavyweights The Beards and Macklemore are two examples of this, and local outfit Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band, while not entirely ‘novelty’, are also starting to make a dent with their outlandish brand of foot-stomping bluegrass. Scheduled to perform at this year’s Big Day Out, Rip It Up chatted with the band’s wobbleboard player James Brown and vocalist Paul McCarthy about their string of successes.

(“Without number plates,” Brown adds). We just went and busked on the street in New Orleans every night and soaked it up.”

“After that we spent quite a lot of time in the desert in Mexico and spent quite a lot of time doing ceremonial activities. We came back with beards and cactus residue,” Brown jokes.

Given the cultish number of individuals in the Dr Piffle band, how hard is it to keep all the members engaged?

“It’s a funny one, because everyone has such a passion for the band that you don’t have to question anyone’s commitment. If someone can’t be there we can always usually cover all bases. It’s kind of like a family in that respect, we know everyone’s in it,” McCarthy says.

WHO: Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band WHERE: Big Day Out, Adelaide Showground WHEN: Fri Jan 25

The Hot Six 2012 Where Are They Now? One Above

Gold Bloom

Last year was a massive one for producer Andrew Burford, AKA One Above. His work could be heard on Triple J favourites from Chance Waters, Illy and Hilltop Hoods, with Burford also touring with Hilltop Hoods and rounding out the year with Homebake and ARIA Awards appearances. You can also hear him playing keys on Hoods’ cool cover of Beastie Boys’ So Watcha Want on the new Triple J Like A Version Eight disc, plus he’ll be helping take hip hop to the V8 lovers at Clipsal with the Hoods in March.

With a bit of a tweaking of membership following their Hot Six appearance, Gold Bloom released the Rage-approved Stalactites video mid-year, while further shows interstate saw them spreading the word. In the few spare hours when she wasn’t performing somewhere in town in one of her various musical guises, pictured bassist Naomi Keyte has also been playing a part in the Bowden redevelopment promotional campaign.

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The Honey Pies Never ones to wait around for the world to call on them, diligent rascals The Honey Pies have recently released their third album Coconuts (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), launched at Jive in December – precisely a year on from the Jive launch of their second album Carpe Carp. And don’t go bothering looking for the film Coconuts – it doesn’t exist (yet).

Tying in nicely with the first anniversary of their Hot Six appearance, The Bearded Gypsy Band will be launching their new live album next week at the Governor Hindmarsh before heading out on a national tour. Live At The Wheaty follows a big year that featured appearances at WOMADelaide, Apollo Bay Music Festival, Harvest Festival and a whole lot of university lecture theatres.

Max Savage & The False Idols

Glisk

A regular sight during Adelaide’s festival season last year, Max Savage & The False Idols released their EP Live At The Wheatsheaf in March before the be-hatted frontman moved over yonder to Melbourne. Since last year’s Hot Six appearance Max has notched up 80 shows across Australia, but he’s back in town next week to support fellow Hot Six Class Of 2012ers The Bearded Gypsy Band at their CD launch.

Michael Radzevicius, the electronics maestro behind the Glisk sound, is now working under the Glamour Lakes banner.

Sure to steal away some of Flume’s media attention, new Glamour Lakes EP Canicule will set hearts on fire. It was released this week on Brisbane’s Silo Arts label, with the uber-cool Frenchkiss label also giving Radz a global leg-up. Nice one.

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Industry Picks From Those In The Know

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The Jam Room / Artist Promoter After winning the national Telstra Road To Discovery competition in January 2012, Kelly Menhennett has since played on stages at Woodford Folk Festival, Tamworth Country Music Festival, Queenscliff Music Festival and Nashville’s Americana Music Festival. Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band have also cemented themselves a cult following on the local scene. For a band that some days has four members and other days 12, their live show is a shambolic love affair.

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Rising from the ashes of the now defunct foursome The Daylight Braves are Kids With Teeth, a duo heading in a different direction from their previous incarnation as they adjust to life as a two-piece. The greatest difference to guitarist Tom Stevens? They now only have to take one car.

To expand on these differences, Stevens adds, “Besides a completely different sound, we just wanted to fuck around more in this band. Writing songs and organising shows as a four-piece can be difficult and stressful at times but, with just the two of us, it can be piss-easy.”

Creative and scheduling conflicts weren’t the primary reason for The Daylight Braves splitting at the start of 2012, but rather geographical difficulty - half the band wanted to move interstate.

“The band ended on good terms. We still love each other and have a massive catalogue of inside jokes,” Stevens confirms.

When it was clear The Daylight Braves – also formerly known as Jay Walker & The Pedestrians – were on their way out, Stevens and drummer Alister Pike got together for a jam. When Stevens picked up a guitar instead of a bass, Kids With Teeth came to fruition.

“I remember it all happening really fast.

We started jamming as a two-piece, got a few structures together and booked a show, which forced us to get our shit together. The first gig was hack. We didn’t have our shit together...”

Since then they have definitely got their shit together, working hard to make 2013 a year to continue the growth since

landing on their feet. Stevens and Pike have worked closely together to ensure that Kids With Teeth remains a tight collaboration.

Creative control is shared equally, with both members on vocals and the drum beat, rather than guitar, often dictating the direction of the song.

The recording of their debut Kids With Teeth EP saw the pair enlisting past The Daylight Braves producer Matt Hills, who has also worked with Wolf & Cub and Fire!

Santa Rosa, Fire!, to deliver an EP with a sense of familiarity. Key singles Hell Hole, Stop The Fire! and The Distance have already become crowd favourites, with the video for The Distance being filmed at iconic Adelaide bar Two Ships just before it closed its doors - one of the last visions of a long-time local favourite. A follow-up release is already planned for early-to-mid 2013, with funds (not creative drive) being the main obstacle.

Self-describing their sound as “postdisco-rap-rock-eagle with Dianne sauce” and answering a perfectly straight-forward question of why everyone should go see one of their shows with “Not telling”; the band’s cheeky disposition is more of a reflection of Kids With Teeth’s easy-going approach to music-making rather than arrogance.

Reports from their live shows suggest that there’s a lot of noise involved, which Stevens seems rather proud about.

“People have told me that they have had to move as far away from the stage as possible to be able to listen to us because we make so much noise. There are only two of us, so surely it can’t be that bad?”

WHO: Kids With Teeth WHAT: Kids With Teeth EP (Independent)

Tara Wright The Governor Hindmarsh Publicist Jungle City are one of the loosest, tight bands on the Adelaide scene. They have an infectious groove and an electric energy, with 2012 having been an impressive year featuring a Scorcher Fest showcase.

I expect to see great things from them in 2013. Adelaide: brace yourselves for some Jungle Fever!

Luke Penman Play/Pause/Play Blog Mastermind / Radio Adelaide Presenter After playing Big Day Out and signing with Pilot Records, Ride Into The Sun were invited to record with members of The Black Angels. That dedication and those recordings (and connections) could well catapult them straight into the American psych scene. Sincerely, Grizzly have had an incredible year and are playing Big Day Out and Laneway. They deserve everything they’re getting. Oisima is getting known internationally for being one of the best – he already has label interest from Germany and is working with Pilot Records locally.

I think I saw Swimming more times than any other band in 2012. Their minimalist, experimental art-pop is just absolutely gorgeous - huge potential to be an international cult band.

Jimmy Bollard Adelaide Warner Music Rep

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Tenacious Scene Blogger / Gonzo Photojournalist And the six Adelaide acts I endorse for 2013, in the hope they don’t break up, relocate to Melbourne/London/Berlin/your mum’s house or start up a wildly overhyped Macbook lo-fi R&B/chillstep/grungecore act in the intervening 12 months before they’re all nominated again as Rip It Up’s Hot Six in 2014 (if not sooner… jinx!) are: Horror My Friend, The Villenettes, Archers, Imogen Brave, Last Days Of Kali and The Angels Of Gung Ho. Go see them live; support local music! It’s just like Soundclouding a Tumblr hashtag on your android; only with 37 percent less chance of brain injury!

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Don’t be surprised if one or two Adelaide artists join the Warner ranks this year.

There’s been a lot of interest shown here. I recently started co-managing Bad Dreems and they certainly have the potential to raise the bar this year. They’ve got a totally unique sound and an amazing live presence. Console Warriors are another band I’ll be watching closely.

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They’ve been on the radar for a little while now, but The Salvadors tirelessly continue to leap forward with their unashamedly feel-good and catchy tunes. With clever arrangements, sunny and breezy vocals, always gorgeous guitar and a fresh, world class sound, this band was made for summer.

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Ferris Mular has got a really cool sound going on. He seems to mash together a heap of different bits and pieces and make them sound as smooth as Sonny & Cher singing I Got You Babe. I’m a huge fan of Kaurna Cronin’s laid-back folk sound - a great soundtrack to a long drive on a hot day along the coast. I really enjoy the quirky minimal sounds of Swimming. Their harmonies are amazing (live and recorded) and they have this really relaxed, sweet sound about them. For some reason their song Animals sounds like they may have written it after watching the movie Juno with the volume down and The XX turned up on the stereo... Does that make sense? It does in my head…

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Jungly-inspired indie outfit Archers are hot musical property this year, so much so that bassist Dan Appleby has to carefully ruminate his to-do list of 2013 during his interview with Rip It Up so as not to miss anything.

“Right. Well we’re starting the year off with Big Day Out, which we’re super excited about,” he begins. “After that we’re doing a showcase show at Jive with some other local bands before heading on tour to the eastern states. Then we’ve got a new film clip collaboration with Capital Waste set for release at the end of January, and you can also keep an ear out for some new songs and a new record later in the year.”

In comparison to other acts, Archers have had a very short yet intensive musical career.

Since their formation in mid-2010 they’ve already shared stages with high-impact Australian bands like Alpine, Jinja Safari and Husky – all this before having more than a handful of singles to their name. In a way, you could compare Archers’ unique breed of sparkling, summery music to Triple J Unearthed High act Snakadaktal, which is appropriate, given they’ve supported them too.

“Snakadaktal was without a doubt our favourite band to support. We were lucky enough to do two sold-out shows back to back with them, and they brought an excellent bunch of fans who were really responsive with them. Which made it awesome for us, there was a massive crowd to play to.

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by Miranda “Plus, Phoebe [Cockburn, singer of Snakadaktal] is also a total babe,” he adds with a laugh.

In October last year Archers gave us the first taste of their slow-burning jams and percussive undertones in the form of their debut EP What Birds Think. The release introduced something quite light and buoyant, yet according to Appleby, the band are now moving into some more “aggressive” territory with their latest material.

“I’d say our last EP was indie pop, indie pop rock… but now we’re getting a bit more aggressive,” he offers.

Something that Archers has become renowned for in their short tenure is their use of bright visuals. Feathers, flags, neon smoke and face paint have become stage staples for all their live shows, and a colourful aesthetic has now married itself to their music. As such, the band have been putting out some truly inventive and stunning music videos. We’ve already seem them blazing trails on foothills in costume garb with film duo Capital Waste for their clip Seven Skies, and McCarthy hints their next video will be even more epic.

“We also have a new video about to drop at the end of this month that we did with Capital Waste, and that has heaps and heaps

of elaborate props and visuals. You can expect some pretty outlandish costumes, choreographed dance, lots of high action and heaps of slow motion shots.”

Aside from being good mates with their film crew, Archers also have strong ties to the Adelaide music scene with some of the members being in other bands like Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band. As such, can we expect any exciting guest vocals on their forthcoming debut album?

“We don’t have anything locked in, we wouldn’t mind working with Question Question. They’ve got really nice female vocals that might be good to use on some of our songs.”

If not, they could always convert their songs into DJ mixes, given their drummer occasionally makes forays into the electronic side of things.

“We’ve always tried to push him to get more into that, hopefully he’ll do it at some point.”

WHO: Archers WHAT: What Birds Think (Independent) WHERE: Big Day Out, Adelaide Showground WHEN: Fri Jan 25

Hot Six Band Picks Our Hot Six representatives choose other Adelaide acts they’re expecting big things from in 2013.

Matthew Barlow Sparkspitter “I’m a little biased here but I have to say I’m excited about the Swimming recording that should be out in the first half of this year.

There’s another band called The Dunes that have just started kicking around and I’m pretty keen on those guys. I’m not sure what Gold Bloom are up to but I’m sure they’ve got something up their sleeve. Rendezvous With Rama also seem to be ticking boxes and getting plenty of people out to their shows.”

Tom Stevens Kids With Teeth

Launching an international tour before you’ve even released a debut album sounds like a fast-track to career suicide, but upwardly mobile instrumental trio Sparkspitter have the passport stamps to prove it’s not only possible, it’s also musically advantageous.

In the wake of releasing their Fearsplishing single late last year, local post-rockers Matthew Barlow, Rohan ‘Reg’ Goldsmith and Tom Capogreco headed to South East Asia and dished out their Kraut-influenced flavours to new audiences in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Indonesia. Although bassist Barlow refers to the tour as a “logistical nightmare” due to instrument haulage dramas, the trek was a fruitful initiation into international touring.

“It was amazing and I still don’t believe we got through it unscathed, but we did!”

Barlow says. “We definitely want to go back to Indonesia – we met some cool people, the hospitality was great and we are very interested in the scene there.”

Barlow admits to a bit of culture shock, with the hygiene standards of some eateries coming into question.

“It was on our minds a lot – and we walked out of a couple of places in Indonesia because we decided we weren’t going to eat there – but if you’ve got some sense you’ll get through it. We might have had a bit of a bellyache a couple of nights but it was alright. We had some great meals in Kuala Lumpur as we were staying with a friend who’s living there, plus Indonesia’s street food is great. It’s not your regular amazing meal, but it’s different.”

A DIY music collective called 7x0x7 assisted the intrepid Sparkspitter in arranging contacts and gigs in South East Asia.

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“Our friends Bad Dreems are doing some great things. I’m expecting even more from them this year.”

Justin McArthur No Birds “Oisima. He’s just killing it at the moment, he’s awesome. Give No Birds and Question Question another 12 months and hopefully we’ll be killing it also.”

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“Other Adelaide bands such as Night Hag had gone through them to arrange tours of South East Asia before. One of the 7x0x7 girls Cher just happened to be living in Adelaide and I actually bumped into her at the Exeter, which was fortunate and serendipitous. She contacted all the people in the cities where we wanted to play and the tour was great… It went down a treat and I think it was a breath of fresh air for them.”

Given the trio’s nous when it comes to lovingly-constructed looped sonic palettes, it’s little wonder that filmmakers and production houses are pestering the band for songs. Barlow says the band are keen to build Sparkspitter’s relationships between sound and vision.

“We’ve had quite a few requests in the last six months or so, with most wanting to use the track Harsh, Low And Lovely from our EP. We’ve had people wanting it for films and a company contacted us about using Sparkspitter in their ABC TV series [twentysomething] this year. It’s definitely

something that interests us and we’re superkeen to keep involved in the film area. Tom is a filmmaker outside of playing music so we’re all pretty interested in joining the forces of film and music together.”

Barlow suggests the axolotl-loving band will be following up October’s Fearsplishing by recording new material in the coming months.

“We were pretty productive in 2012 – even before the Fearsplishing launch and tour we had an extra six songs on the go and we’ve cemented a few more now. Some need a bit more work, but we have about 12 songs that are mostly ready to go. We’re looking to record our first album in April, so you can definitely expect a debut album in 2013 and hopefully another tour through Australia and Asia.

We’re pretty excited about this year.”

WHO: Sparkspitter WHERE & WHEN: Laneway Festival Pre-Party at Ed Castle on Fri Jan 18 and The Grace Emily (with Ghost Notes) on Sun Feb 3

Kaurna Cronin “In my preference, I really like what the Piffle band are doing [Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band].

Delia [Obst – Kaurna’s female vocalist] is recording a CD this year and I can see that doing great things. Also I am a fan of Banjo [Jackson]’s stuff and Chris Panousakis – the ol’ Timberwolf. There is a lot of that kind of stuff happening in Adelaide at the moment. I’d like to see what they do.”

James Brown Dr Piffle & The Burlap Band “Archers, I think they’re coming up. And Surahn. There’s another band called Voice Of Trees, it’s a dude who plays drums and didgeridoos and stuff.”

Dan Appleby Archers “I’d probably say Bad Dreems. We’re expecting a fair bit out of them, they hit it very massively and very quickly and don’t seem to be slowing down at all.”

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Back In Blak Meet Gary Clark Jr. No, not that guy from accounts. Gary Clark Jr, the man being hailed as the second coming of Jimi Hendrix. The man awarded the Golden Corndog award for performing at more major North American music festivals in 2012 than any other musician on the planet. The man who has released his debut album Blak And Blu for your listening pleasure. till not sure who the heck I’m talking about? Take a seat and let me tell you more about him. When Clark was still only 17, the mayor of Austin, Texas, proclaimed an entire day in his honour. For this to happen at such a young age, there must be something special about him. There is. He is one of very few people who can realistically claim to be a prodigy.

“I grew up listening early on to Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations,” he begins. “All soul records. I remember just kinda relaxing and putting them on and dancing around and singing a bit, just having a good time. Those are my earliest memories of music, that’s what got me into it.”

Generally you’ll find the musician on the road, travelling from festival to festival.

“I’m fortunate enough to be invited to all those festivals and I have a great time doing it,” Clark Jr says. “Every one of them is different with a great energy. I don’t know how I wound up with the Corndog though.

I’ve heard [the Big Day Out is] great, I cannot wait.”

Clark Jr’s southern drawl is at its most animated when talking about his debut album Blak And Blu, featuring Clark Jr on guitar, vocals and trumpet, drummer JJ Johnson, keyboardist Zac Rae and producer Mike

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Elizondo on bass. Elizondo seems a perfect match for Clark Jr, having worked with artists as diverse as Dr Dre, Mastodon, Fiona Apple and Regina Spektor.

“We were talking about who would be good to work with and his name came up. I checked him out and we got in a room together and started talking about music and our influences and we have a lot in common.”

Working with other artists is second nature for Clark Jr. Sitting around a blues jam in Austin can spark things like that. Things like collaborating with Alicia Keys or The Roots.

“I’ve played with The Roots a couple of times. They’re great guys you know, good to hang with, but they’re strong musically as well. I got to collaborate with Alicia Keys a bit, that was really good.”

It’s really no surprise then that festivals are clamouring to add him to their bill on the back of the release of Blak And Blu, a longawaited debut for the 28-year-old. From the opening line of the album you get the feeling Clark Jr knows exactly what he is doing and is confident in his abilities. The track Ain’t Messing Around begins with the line ‘I don’t believe in competition - ain’t nobody else like me around’. The title track ventures into a modern version of the soul records of his parents’ collection.

“I’m most proud of Blak And Blu and Next Door Neighbour Blues. They’re very different, but I’m equally passionate about them just for what they are.”

Another album highlight is the cover If You Love Me Like You Say/Third Stone From The Sun, with Clark Jr taking ownership of the iconic Hendrix riff. The comparisons to Hendrix are primarily for his musicianship, but the feeling and blues simplicity of his songwriting also nod to the great one.

“I don’t really have a process,” Clarke Jr admits. “Sometimes I wish I did, it would make it a lot easier. There’s a bunch of

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scattered thoughts going on in my brain that I’ll sit down and play on my guitar or play drums or play whatever instrument. Sometimes things that I think are OK come out of it and sometimes it doesn’t work so well. It’s just part of the whole process.”

WHO: Gary Clark Jr WHAT: Blak And Blu (Warner) WHERE: Big Day Out, Adelaide Showground WHEN: Fri Jan 25

Me In Honey Did we mention Gary Clark Jr can also act? The creative chap starred in the 2007 movie Honeydripper alongside Lethal Weapon stalwart Danny Glover. He plays the saviour of a failing blues club and gets to share his amazing guitar talents.

“I loved doing it, but I’m loving playing music, so this is my main focus [now]. I wouldn’t mind doing it again if the opportunity came up.”

That’s Gary Clark Jr for you. Prodigy, multiinstrumentalist, actor… and completely unburdened by it all.

“I’m a music lover, and love to play music.”

Buffalo Soldiers It’s just under a year since Every Time I Die released their sixth record, Ex Lives, and for frontman Keith Buckley, it’s been a life changing 10 months.

The time surrounding its production was filled with an overwhelming sense of claustrophobia for the lyricist, which resulted in countless arguments and an unhappy touring life. utting everything he had and more into the band, he felt like he was treading water and the band was going nowhere – a feeling only amplified by a lifestyle where personal space is a rare commodity. Once the album was unleashed into the world, Buckley’s head was clear long enough to assess where he was at and make some necessary changes to his outlook.

“Feeling stuck doesn’t really sit well with me, and I start to panic and freak out,” Buckley says. “At that point in my life, I just felt stuck.

I mean, everyone goes through it; I’m just lucky enough to be in a band that I can write about it. Since then I’ve been taking a lot more responsibility for everything that was going on, rather than trying to find people to blame.

I’m not just an angry guy now all the time, and I’m not freaking out and having arguments with anybody or getting into bar room brawls anymore. So it’s nice… and peaceful.”

It’s hard to imagine how the frontman of one of today’s more successful metalcore bands could feel like he was going nowhere. Before Christmas, Every Time I Die played three soldout shows in their hometown of Buffalo, and this year are making their debut at the Big Day Out. At home and on festivals such as the Van’s Warped Tour they’re big fish in a small pond; they’re the ones handing out the wedgies and nipple cripples (as promised in a promotional video for their most recent appearance on the

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tour). And even though they’re somewhat small fish in a big pond when standing alongside the talent at the Big Day Out, the fact they managed to ink their name onto the bill of such a festival is testament to their success.

“Now we’re the freshman. These are all the real professionals that have done stuff like this before, so I guess if I had anything to say to them, it would be, ‘Go easy on us. Go real slow, be gentle’,” he laughs. “We’re very excited.

There are a lot of bands on there I’ve never seen before and, you know, we’ve never played anything like it. I’m nervous… It’s a nervous excitement.”

But that doesn’t mean they’ll be adjusting their set or treading lightly to accommodate fans of The Killers or Vampire Weekend.

“There’s one of two ways to approach it. One is that you play the stuff that will go over well with a big crowd, stuff that’s not as heavy, maybe a little more singing in it. Or you do the complete opposite and play the most brutal stuff you have, and you leave people walking away remembering your band, being like, ‘What the hell did I just hear? It’s 1.30 in the afternoon!’

It’s the latter for us; we just crank it up, and I don’t know what to say, if people aren’t into us, they don’t have to watch us.”

And you might imagine the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ set somewhat clashing with the aggression released from Every Time I Die’s, but Buckley has a different point of view.

“We’ve definitely had some pretty weird mixtures, but to me, I think it’s weird when we play with all metal bands and all their fans like us, because I don’t think we’re that heavy.

Like at Ozzfest, I was surprised that people in Black Label Society T-shirts were coming up and telling us that we had a good set – that was weird to me.”

WHO: Every Time I Die WHERE: Big Day Out, Adelaide Showground WHEN: Fri Jan 25

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Hollywood Undead

I don’t know how movies work, I don’t know the background story, and I don’t When Every Time I Die frontman know what people are like in real life.

Keith Buckley has previously With music, I know exactly how it works. suggested he “hates music” but I know, for instance, the guy singing this “loves movies”, it’s all about song, well, I talked to him, and it’s not escapism. about this and he’s making fun of so and “I love movies because I’m not involved in so. It’s harder to be a fan of music when it, I can watch movies as a fan, you know. you know how it works…”

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Incoming

Soul Clap Renowned for their forward-thinking productions, remixes and edits (not to mention their creative DJ sets), house purveyors Soul Clap are heading to Australia early next month. Last year the Boston-based duo (Eli Goldstein and Charlie Levine) released their debut long player EFUNK (Everybody’s Freaky Under Nature’s Kingdom), their first batch of original material in almost two years and a culmination of their sonic influences so far. The album saw them collaborating with some close friends including Baby Prince (AKA Gadi Mizrahi of Wolf + Lamb) on vocals and Greg Paulus from No Regular Play on trumpet on the final track (with Eli’s dad, Gary Goldstein also playing bass) among other special guests. Don’t miss Soul Clap live at Sugar.

Soul Clap play at Sugar on Sat Feb 2.

Daniel Wang

Q+A With Koolta

California-born/Taiwan-raised producer Daniel Wang has been among some of the most restless and classically minded members of the dance music community in the past decade, making a name for himself in the mid-‘90s Chicago house scene with a series of playful, funky 12”s on his own Balihu label, compiled on 1998’s I Was A Disco Malcontent: The Best Of Balihu Records. Last in the ‘90s, Wang relocated to New York City where he became friends with the like-minded Morgan Geist of Metro Area. By this point Wang has given up on the samples which cluttered his early releases, taking his back-to-basics ethic one step further. In 2001, Wang released his soulful ‘70s boogie-inspired album Idealism and in 2003 he left the US to live in Berlin, where his involvement in the club culture plays an important role in the city’s gay culture and political climate.

For local MC/producer Koolta, 2012 was “utterly ridiculous” – the 2011 Hilltop Hoods Initiative winner played at Parklife, the Big Day Out and supported the Hilltop Hoods at the Entertainment Centre on top of releasing his own debut album, The Extraordinary Average Joe. So how exactly does one top that?

Daniel Wang plays at Sugar on Thu Jan 17.

Linkwood DJ/producer Linkwood (AKA Nick Moore) is best known for his highly acclaimed releases on Firecracker Records, including Miles Away and Piece Of Mind, and you can catch him at Cuckoo Bar live in early March. Moore released his first fulllength album System for Prime Numbers in September 2009, the album which opened many doors for him and resulted in world tours. Originally from Bristol, in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Moore fell in love with house and techno and decided to make his own music by learning everything he could about production and recording techniques. Over the years, Moore has earned himself a reputation for being elusive but down-to-earth, preferring to work in the shadows and conveying all that needs to be said through his emotive musical offerings. Catch this highly respected DJ in the flesh at Cuckoo in March.

Linkwood play at Cuckoo Bar on Sat Mar 2.

CD Reviews

Calyx & TeeBee

Wiz Khalifa

True

All Or Nothing

ONIFC

(Terrible Records)

(RAM)

(Atlantic)

Beyonce’s soulful little sister has long been in big sis’ shadow, always threatening to break out with a rawer version of soul and funk than Blue Ivy’s mama. Last year’s terrific single Losing You (which is True’s lead track) was a sign that after almost a decade after her first album (2003’s Solo Star) Solange was ready to jump out of Beyonce’s shadow to become a true hip indie soulful diva. Produced and written entirely

by Solange and producer Dev Hynes (AKA Lightspeed Champion and Blood Orange), unfortunately Solange’s mini album True doesn’t contain anything that matches the majestic Losing You, which sounds like Robyn getting a Neptunes (in their prime) makeover. Second track Some Things Never Seem To Fucking Work is True’s only other highlight with its throwback ‘80s soulful groove. Elsewhere Lovers In The Parking Lot and Don’t Let Me Down are weak throwaway R&B/neo soul jams. Losing You promised so much, but True is a huge letdown.

Jeff Spicoli

There are clear distinctions that can be made between the results of a lot of time spent in the studio crafting an album of rich production, or just pressing the Make Record Now button on the mixing desk.

In regard to Calyx & Teebee’s latest output on the well-repped Ram Recordings label, the feeling conveyed is that of a decidedly rounded, beautifully polished and thoughtfully balanced album of pure D&B which will raise the arm hairs at all the right moments. These beats have a strong neurofunk vibe, blending big atmospherics and crescendos which give way to twisted and intricately programmed beats. The standard relentless snare-kick/ snare-kick; repeat pattern is avoided in favour of more broken beats that are better fun on dancefloors, and make for killer headphone moments too. In fact, slipping the over-ears on and listening to this record is pretty fucking mind-blowing as there is more depth in the production on this record than in a Tony Scott film. Nice one, indeed.

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Wiz Khalifa’s fourth studio album was one of the most hotly-anticipated releases of 2012, but considering the amount of bragging and vanity on display from start to finish, it isn’t too harsh to say that this is pretty much a let-down. In a nutshell, there isn’t a track on this album in which Khalifa doesn’t jump at the chance to tell you all about his $10,000-a-month weed habit, the science of chasing money and the lavish lifestyle he leads each day – oh, and in case you wondered, ONIFC is an acronym for ‘Only Nigga In First Class’.

The point is, just because Khalifa falls under the category of ‘weed rap’ it doesn’t necessarily give him licence to make music that completely lacks lyricism or any fresh ideas whatsoever. It’s vain, lazy and at times even cringeworthy. A couple of standout moments take place on the nine-minute-long No Limit (a song saved only by the epic interlude) and Remember You which sees him teaming up with The Weeknd (whose fingerprints are all over it). Other than that, you ain’t gonna find much substance here.

Simone Keenan

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Tell us about The Extraordinary Average Joe...

The singles Birth, Poison (featuring Prime) and Possessions have been picked up by Triple J and community radio, but the best feedback for me personally is all the people who have hit me up and said they love how honest and heartfelt the music is – I couldn’t ask for better feedback because that is exactly what I was trying to achieve.

Tell us more about the new single Possessions, what’s the story there?

Each verse is represented by a different character: the executive, the middle class worker and the revolutionary. They all bring a unique perspective on life and the responsibilities and views they have towards money and possessions. As the story plays out, the three characters appear to be living vastly different lives but they are in fact the same man experiencing life in three different dimensions.

We are really proud of the film clip we did for it too.

We won the Clip It! initiative thanks to Canon and the Media Resource Centre, which gave us access to a bunch of cool equipment.

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How’s 2013 looking for you?

In a couple of weeks I am going on my first ever tour with a bunch of great people – Electric Elements, Prime, Deathstarrs, Ry, Mute MC plus more. The tour is to support my latest single Possessions. In the next couple of months my DJ and I will drop another mixtape following up from our free mix The Forked Road, which dropped at the end of 2011. Once that project is complete, I’ll be getting very busy making the next album. 2013 is sure to be a busy one!

What can people expect from the upcoming tour?

I’m really looking forward to doing some different things on stage with this tour. I’ll be tinkering with some nifty synths and will be giving the audience an insight into the beat-making process. I’ve got some special guests jumping up in my sets and I’ll be doing some new material, stuff from the album and mixtape.

Koolta plays at Rhino Room on Fri Feb 1.

Calendar/ Fri Jan 18 Sun City (Rocket Bar) Sat Jan 19 Kerser (Fowler’s Live) Sat Jan 19 Sneaky Sound System (Victoria Square) Thu Jan 24 Calvertron (Apple Bar) Sat Jan 26 R3hab (HQ) Thu Jan 31 Proxy (Apple Bar) Thu Feb 7 TJR (Apple Bar) Thu Feb 21 Blawan (Sugar) Sat Feb 21 PilotFest 2013 (Arcade Lane) Mar Sat 23 Daniel Bell (Sugar)

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Interviews

In Julian Hamilton’s own words, it’s just been “too long between drinks, Australia”. The last time electro sensation The Presets headlined a national tour was no less than three years ago on the back of the ARIA Award-winning Apocalypso, and even though they’re about to do the same in celebration of new album Pacifica, Hamilton reveals the Sydney-based duo are in a very different headspace already.

“It’s still early days, this album is still very fresh, but certainly, once you finish a record the very next thing you’re thinking about is, ‘What next?’, With Pacifica, we really feel we’ve accomplished something special, we’re very proud of it, but now that it’s released, we’re thinking, ‘What else can we do?’ Yeah, it’s a little weird when you’re still talking about Pacifica and you’re about to tour the record around the world, but that’s just how Kim [Moyes] and I work.”

Hamilton and Moyes are especially looking forward to bringing Pacifica to life on stage – the design for the show having been masterminded by Martin Phillips, the same man responsible for the lighting work for Daft Punk, Kanye West and Lady Gaga.

What’s more, Hamilton says he’s just as excited to revisit some of The Presets’ earlier material – though with a whole new twist to the classics.

“We’ve got a brand new light show as well, Martin Phillips is doing our gigs and he works with people like Daft Punk and Nine Inch Nails. This new show has never been seen in Australia before. What I’m really excited about is that we’re going to go back and rework a lot of the older material for the show.

We’re doing a lot of remixing, we’re doing some new versions of much-loved older songs.

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I think it’ll make the show extra special, I think it’s a wonderful idea. People that want to just purely listen to the album [Pacifica] can do that at home anyway, so it’s cool for us because we don’t get bored, and it’s cool for the fans because they get a bit of a surprise.”

In fact, revisiting older material is literally a trip down memory lane for Hamilton, who likens The Presets’ back-catalogue to a photo-album. Each songs captures a time and a place, not to mention the people associated with the moment...

“It’s kind of emotional in that way,” Hamilton agrees. “Looking through the music we’ve made is the same thing as looking through a collection of photos. It’s like watching your life flash before your eyes and

you’re constantly reminding yourself of when you were younger. But it’s fun as well. We’re just lucky enough to have a bunch of tunes that we can even pick and choose from. We’re able to dig something up and dust it off and bring it back to life again. The funny thing is that the golden rule is to forget about the album you’ve just done because it can just trip you up when you go on to make a new one.

We had to leave all the madness of Apocalypso behind us because it was just going to become that elephant in the room once we started Pacifica. Each record is a new slate.”

According to Hamilton, This Boy’s In Love and My People may be classics at this point, but you’ll never hear anything like that again from The Presets. Everything has its time and place...

Paul ner Kalkbren

by Cyclone

In later years EDM’s live performers have become ever more competitive, with minimal hero Richie Hawtin, AKA Plastikman, confessing as such.

But Berlin’s Paul Kalkbrenner, who last month brought his full ‘concert’ experience to Sydney and Melbourne, doesn’t check out rivals’ sets.

“No, because I’m one of the few guys who plays this live show like it is for more than a decade,” he says in halting English. It is authentic, however.

“I saw a show once – I don’t wanna say the name, a very big electronic act – and there were 909s not even plugged [in]

electronically!”

Kalkbrenner, ironically famed for his Berlin Calling alter-ego DJ Ickarus, was born in Leipzig, East Germany. The muso was fortunate that the Berlin Wall fell before he was old enough to “ask questions” (he was 13).

Nowadays Communism is “romanticised” – “everything was all fluffy” – when the reality was sinister. Germany reunified, Kalkbrenner revelled in the techno scene. He’d eventually produce his own.

Friends with Sascha Funke, Kalkbrenner joined Ellen Allien’s BPitch Control stable, issuing several albums from 2001.

Kalkbrenner played his music live, being disinterested in DJing – though, he did spin as a teen. Like fellow live practitioner Deadmau5, he’s incongruously polled in the DJ Mag Top 100.

The sometime TV editor found himself a celebrity when he portrayed the fictional DJ Martin ‘Ickarus’ Karow in Hannes Stöhr’s 2008 cult clubbing film Berlin Calling. The director initially contacted Kalkbrenner to compose the soundtrack, but then persuaded him to accept the starring role. Kalkbrenner enjoyed a record-breaking pop hit from the OST in Sky And Sand, sung by his younger brother, “soul boy” Fritz. Distancing himself from Berlin Calling, Kalkbrenner presented a live documentary after a sell-out European tour. Meanwhile, he split with BPitch Control, launching Paul Kalkbrenner Musik. In 2011 he proffered the resolutely instrumental Icke Wieder.

Kalkbrenner has just released his sixth album, Guten Tag, led by the groovy Das Gezabel. As with his live show, Kalkbrenner

“Our goal has always been to make tunes that we don’t hear on the radio, so as soon as other people start doing something similar, you know it’s time to move onto the next thing. When we made My People, it was fresh and new for us – this time tracks like Ghosts and AO have the same impact on us. I haven’t heard anyone doing something similar to the majority of the songs on Pacifica. The goal is really simple to me – we make tunes that are really cool pop songs with a techno edge.”

WHO: The Presets WHAT: Pacifica (Modular) WHERE: Entertainment Centre WHEN: Tue Feb 5

has refined, not changed, his approach.

Indeed, he considers his music in poststructuralist terms. Kalkbrenner describes his evolution as “like always remixing yourself ”. Markus Schulz has suggested that Kalkbrenner produces trance-friendly melodic techno.

“Some people even call my music ‘stadium techno’ – so it always works better in bigger [venues] than in very small clubs,” he responds.

Kalkbrenner remains oblivious to much of what is happening in electronic music.

“I’m not a big music listener,” he says. Nor is Kalkbrenner inspired by other techno.

“I’d rather stay completely uninfluenced by anything, especially when I make an album.”

He admits that this is a “privilege” for a live artist. A DJ must stay abreast.

“I think you could name me the most successful 10 record labels in techno of this [last] year – I’ve never heard of them.”

Inspiration is less important than devoting time to his work and drawing on experience.

Kalkbrenner may have crossed over with Sky... but, a Moby remix aside, pop production doesn’t appeal to him. So what if Katy Perry calls?

“I probably don’t do shit like this,” he laughs. And Kalkbrenner, who reveals that he’s had “stupid” offers to play “the crazy, druggy DJ”, has no desire to pursue acting.

The early mornings on set were “really challenging”, he rues. He’s opposed to the idea of a Berlin Calling sequel.

Kalkbrenner might be the most idiosyncratic individual in techno today.

Tellingly, while lately marrying a DJ, Simina Grigoriu, and with Fritz active in the biz, the thought of further collaborating with either deplores him. He can’t “compromise” in the studio. Kalkbrenner has tried in the past with “good friends”.

“It ended in a fight after minutes.”

WHO: Paul Kalkbrenner WHAT: Guten Tag (Balance/EMI) WHEN: Out now

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Tour Guide/ THU JAN 17 REVOLVER (France) @ Space Theatre NADEAH (France) @ Space Theatre SHELLEY SEGAL (Vic), HURRICANE JANE, BLACK FOX & LIEUTENANT JAM @ Hotel Metro

SWEET JEAN (Vic) & THE YEARLINGS @ Wheatsheaf

TUE FEB 5 THE PRESETS (Syd), PARACHUTE YOUTH & LIGHT YEAR @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre

WED FEB 6 FRI JAN 18-SAT JAN 19 SCHÜTZENFEST: PSEUDO ECHO (Vic), PHIL EMMANUEL (Syd), SWANEE and more @ Ellis Pk

FRI JAN 18 SUN CITY (WA) @ Rocket Bar NIGHTWISH (Finland), EYEFEAR & BLACK MAJESTY @ HQ CARMEN MARIA VEGA (France) @ Space Theatre THE AUSTRALIAN CLOWNS (Vic/SA/NSW) @ Governor Hindmarsh JOHN EARL WALKER (US) & JJ FIELDS @ Wheatsheaf SHELLEY SEGAL (Vic), HURRICANE JANE, BLACK FOX & LIEUTENANT JAM @ Cavern Club

SAT JAN 19 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS (US) & RIDE INTO THE SUN @ Jive 1974AD (Nepal) @ Governor Hindmarsh THE AUSTRALIAN CLOWNS (Vic/SA/NSW) @ Old Clarendon Inn

RORY MCLEOD (UK) @ Guthries (Prospect)

THU FEB 7

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 @ Fowler’s Live COLIN HAY (Vic) @ Her Majesty’s Theatre LITTLE WISE (Vic) & THE TEAHOUSE FIRE @ The Singing Gallery (McLaren Vale)

SAT FEB 9 COLIN HAY (Vic) @ Arts & Convention Centre (Barossa Valley) LITTLE WISE (Vic) & THE TEAHOUSE FIRE @ Wheatsheaf

TUE FEB 12

BOYS OF SUMMER: DEEZ NUTS (Vic), COMEBACK KID (Can), FIRST BLOOD (US), HAND OF MERCY & THE BRIDE @ Adelaide Uni Bar AUSTRALIAN CLOWNS (Vic/SA/ NSW) @ Governor Hindmarsh

CELTIC THUNDER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

ALESTORM (US) @ Fowler’s Live NORTHLANE (Syd) & IN HEARTS AWAKE, ENDLESS HEIGHTS, SECONDS BEFORE SUNRISE & THE BROADSIDE @ Cavern Club

WED FEB 13 CELTIC THUNDER (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre CONVERGE (US), OLD MAN GLOOM (US) & STARVATION @ Fowler’s Live

THE DEMON PARADE (Vic) @ Rocket Bar NEON BOGART (Vic) @ Higher Ground East Art Base (188 Grenfell St)

SAT FEB 16

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

THE DEMON PARADE (Vic) @ Grace Emily NEON BOGART (Vic) @ Higher Ground East Art Base (188 Grenfell St) FEELINGS (Syd) & THE VIENNAS @ Ed Castle

DAVID GARNHAM & THE REASONS TO LIVE (NT) & KELLY MENHENNETT @ Wheatsheaf 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 BONDI CIGARS (Syd) @ Governor Hindmarsh

SAT JAN 26 BONDI CIGARS (Syd) & THE STREAMLINERS @ Old Clarendon Inn AUSTRALIA DAY CONCERT: POTBELLEEZ (Syd) & WES CARR @ Elder Pk

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 (Syd) & 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 PAT CAPOCCI COMBO (Syd), LUCKY SEVEN, THE SILVERADOS & DJ CHRISTINE ORANGE BLOSSOM @ Governor Hindmarsh SHANNON NOLL (Syd) @ Norwood Live LIOR (Vic) @ Space Theatre BENNY WALKER (Vic) @ Hotel Elliot (Port Elliot) LOST CITY FESTIVAL: NOBUNNY (US) and more @ Tuxedo Cat

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

SUN FEB 17 HEATHER PEACE (UK) @ Cavern Club NEON BOGART (Vic) @ Higher Ground East Art Base (188 Grenfell St)

Bowes suggests his raucous Scottish power/ folk metallers are on a mission to bring the nonsense back to heavy music, one eye-patch and brew at a time.

“That’s what we like doing. Anything that’s just ridiculous, over-the-top nonsense is what I like to hear. I think more people like that, they just don’t realise it yet,” he laughs.

Since releasing debut album Captain Morgan’s Revenge in 2008, the outfit have tapped into this sensibility better than most.

Building a career on bombastic songs about

pirates and a reputation as one of metal’s hardest-partying acts will do that. Their next full-length, tentatively due in early 2014, may push things even further.

“There’s a lot of places we can go with pirate-based lyrics,” the vocalist ponders.

“Like on our last album we had a song about pirates travelling through time to kill Vikings.

That’s not exactly traditional piratical, Caribbean fare. We’re gonna do more stuff like that… Like making a song about baking bread, but a guy with an eye-patch is making the bread. There’s a whole world of nonsense we can do. Stupider and stupider is the plan.”

Alestorm will capture all this booze-fuelled silliness during their upcoming return to Australia. Given the rabid reception afforded them during previous tours Down Under, filming their inaugural live DVD on these shores seems a no-brainer. Aside from taping the Melbourne show in its entirety, said release will also detail various off-stage shenanigans. Countless livers may never be the same again.

“It’s gonna make the DVD interesting to watch. We wanna show a whole lot of the backstage stuff; spending our whole week flying every day, across the continent. Getting to gigs, hotels and being wasted for a week; that’s another crazy element of touring Australia. It’s gonna be visceral and real.

There’s a lot of money being thrown at this.

But I would love if we could make it real; no fake shit. We’re not a band that uses backing tracks. So many metal bands these days when they play live are playing to keyboards and backing vocals on tape. We don’t do that at all; everything we do is completely live, which is depressingly rare these days. The DVD will sound live, raw and be full of mistakes, but that’s what happens when we play live. That’s what we want to get across; something real.”

precautions?” he inquires. I can’t lie about the itch-inducing doom of hayfever. “Oh, great.

Now I’m really excited,” he laughs dryly.

Late last year Woods released their acclaimed seventh studio album Bend Beyond, an album that saw them desert their usual lo-fi ‘plug-and-play’ approach for something a bit more structured and pop-inspired.

“We kind of knew what record we wanted to make when we went into this. The last one [2011’s Sun And Shade] was recorded with minimal gear and with our old way of working, which is to just have an idea, play it once, hit record, done. That’s how we wanted our band to be initially, but we kind of got bored from doing that so many times. I mean, I’m really just describing what normal bands do when they make a record. We’d just been living under a rock for so long and for us it was a revelation. We let things marinate for a little bit this time.”

In an interview with Pitchfork last year, Tavaniere claimed that Bend Beyond was the band’s “heaviest album yet” – a surprising

statement given that the songs on their seventh release seem much cleaner and more tailored then previous material.

“Some of the songs are just a little more aggressive. With the last few records, even though there’s some denseness and texture there, we never really went into the aggressive territory like we did with songs like Bend Beyond or Size Meets The Sound. That was something we kind of saved for live shows, whereas the recordings were always acoustic guitar and light drums.”

Hayfever woes aside, Woods are looking forward to trying one particular Australian cuisine when they land.

“What’s the barbecue like over there? We’re really hoping to eat some good barbecue.”

To those who have tickets, take along a snag.

WHO: Alestorm WHERE: Fowler’s Live WHEN: Wed Jan 23

MON FEB 18 JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR (UK) @ Governor Hindmarsh

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

WED FEB 20 CAROLE KING (US) @ Festival Theatre

THU FEB 21 SIR CLIFF RICHARD (UK) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre JULIA STONE (Syd) @ Flinders St Baptist Church

COMING UP FRI FEB 22 GUNG HO (Bris) @ Rocket NORAH JONES (US) @ Festival Theatre SANTANA (US) & STEVE MILLER BAND (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

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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) 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 ENGLISH DOGS (UK), BASTARD SQUAD (Vic), PERDITION & THE MEATBEATERS @ Forresters & Squatters Arms MON MAR 4 DEEP PURPLE (UK) & JOURNEY (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre TUE MAR 5 NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE (US) @ Adelaide Entertainment Centre

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“Metal’s a bit of a po-faced genre that takes itself too seriously,” Alestorm frontman Christopher Bowes proclaims.

“It’s too worried about this image of being all metal. But you know what?

Fuck it, it’s more fun just making stupid songs that people want to hear and have a good time listening to.”

FRI FEB 15

THU JAN 24

FRI JAN 25

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JOE PERNICE (US) & NORMAN BLAKE (Scot) @ Grace Emily STRANGERS (Syd), THE DEAD LOVE & THE PRETTY LITTLES @ Ed Castle LITTLE WISE (Vic) & THE DUDLEYS @ Red Lime Shack Café (Pt Adelaide)

SUN JAN 20

WED JAN 23

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If the New York underground scene threw a house party, Woods would be the kind of band that would know everyone and probably also be hosting it.

Since their formation in 2006 the trio have released eight studio albums and also established a reputable record label for acts like Kurt Vile, Sun Araw and Royal Baths, curated a music festival and become one of the most influential and hard-working lo-fi Brooklyn exports.

This month the band will arrive in Australia to play Sugar Mountain festival and a sideshow in Adelaide at Format on Sat Jan 25. It’ll be the first time the band has ever been here, and multi-instrumentalist Jarvis Taveniere is very curious about our great southern land. So much so that Rip It Up’s interview quickly becomes a Q&A about Australian pollen hazards.

“What exactly is hayfever? Will I just get it from going there and do I need to take any

WHO: Woods, Summer Flake, Wild Oats & Big Richard Insect WHERE: Format WHEN: Thu Jan 24

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Thursday 17th ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: Franky F (6pm) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) BOTANIC BAR – Big Bubba & Betty CAVERN CLUB – band night CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – Band Room: Minority Tradition, Heymus and Mary Webb. Front Bar: Paul Gurry DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Trivia Night (7.30pm) DUBLIN HOTEL – Quizmeisters Trivia (7.30pm) DUKE OF YORK – Beer Garden: DJ Mitchy Burnz.

Front Room: Speakerboxx and DJ Skinny B ED CASTLE – Band Room: live bands (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – The Proj3cts (9pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – These Blessed Bones

GILBERT STREET HOTEL – THE TIMBERS DUO (7PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Gumbo Room Blues Jam featuring Shades Of Blue GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Chris Altmann and Tristan Bird MARION CULTURAL CENTRE – Open Mic Cabaret Café (6.30pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) NORWOOD HOTEL – Open Mic Night PARADISE HOTEL – Complete Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – DJ Dylan PRINCE ALBERT HOTEL – Thirsty Thursday with DJ Tango ROCKET BAR – 8 Bit Kidz featuring resident DJs Stubanger, Hank & Osk and the Powderoom Posse SUGAR – ITDE Deejays and interstate/international guests THE ELEPHANT – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Clearway TONSLEY HOTEL – Katrina Caton (8.30pm) WHITMORE HOTEL – Rainbow Jam Sessions (7.30pm) WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Friday 18th ALMA TAVERN – Fresh Fridays with DJs

ARCHER HOTEL – Upstairs: Jaki J (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Lounge Bar: India Hool (6pm) Johnny G (8pm) AUSSIE INN HOTEL – karaoke (8pm) AUSTRAL – The Austral House Band (7pm) BELAIR HOTEL – Three Star General BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – Dave Hunt (7pm) BOTANIC BAR – Troy J Been, Prince Aaronak and Suckerpunch BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL – Streaker (8pm) BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – Dance Club with DJ BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CLOVERCREST HOTEL – Rock The Boss CROWN & ANCHOR – Front Bar: Carla Lippis (5pm) Ride Into The Sun DJs (1am) Band Room: The Sweet Decline Birthday Bonanza with Sister Rose and Pretty Ugly DOCKSIDE TAVERN – The Paybacks (7.30pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Downtown with DJs Derek Lang, Eric Falcon and Lukky K ED CASTLE – Full Tilt live bands and party DJs ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Trashbags with resident DJs Capt N Cook, Mangie and Terror Terror plus guests ELYSIUM LOUNGE – DJs EMPIRE POOL LOUNGE – DJ (8pm) ENIGMA – Bar 2: Wil Wagner, Ben David, Lincoln Lefevre, Brianna Mahoney and Todd Fogarty. Bar 3: Strike Metal Club featuring From Birth To Burial, Eternal Rest, New Paradigm and Road Haul ESPLANADE HOTEL – Slyde EXETER HOTEL – Fractal EXETER ON RUNDLE – Coops & The Bird FOWLER’S LIVE – The Story So Far GLYNDE HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: The Australia Clowns GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Wild Rocket Fluffy Subtract S GRAND BAR – Flashback Fridays GRAND JUNCTION TAVERN – Leo (6pm) HAMPSTEAD HOTEL – Steve Simon (7pm) HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Hijinx with DJs HILTON HOTEL: MYBAR – DJ Chaps and DJ Lumeire HOPE INN – Acoustic Highway (8.30pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Dimitra (7.30pm) HOTEL TIVOLI – Honey with DJs HQ – Newmarket: Es.Co (every second Friday) LIMBO – DJs

LONDON TAVERN – Live Acoustic Weekly (5pm) Rewind Fridays with DJ Wolfman LORD MELBOURNE – karaoke with Laura Lee MARBLE BAR – Uni Night with DJs MARINA SUNSET BAR – live acoustic music MARION HOTEL – Katrina Caton (6.30pm) MARS BAR – DJ VJBeeJay and guestss (9pm) drag show (2am) MICK O’SHEA’S – The Rustlers MORPHETT ARMS HOTEL – Mojo Duo OAKS PLAZA PIER – Clearway ORIENTAL – Shane Wolf (4.30pm) Tom J Williams (8pm) PJ O’BRIENS – Full Circle PT NOARLUNGA RSL – Linda McCarthy (8pm) RAMSGATE HOTEL – DJ Snake & DJ Rupheo (9pm) RED SQUARE – DJs REX HOTEL – karaoke and Black Caviar ROB ROY HOTEL – Elektrik Feel Duo (6pm) DJ Smiley (9pm) ROCKET BAR – Abracadabra featuring resident DJs The Shiny Brights DJs

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – DJ (8PM) SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Dirty Roots Band SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – DJ Clarke SOUTH ADELAIDE FOOTBALL CLUB – Gerry O STAG – Upstairs: DJs play urban and dance.

Downstairs: DJs play retro SUGAR – TGI Funky with Ben Alibi and HMC SWISH: STAMFORD PLAZA – Nothing But ‘90s with DJs TALBOT HOTEL – DJ playing requests TAPAS ON HINDLEY – flamenco shows by Studio Flamenco (7.30pm) TEA TREE GULLY HOTEL – DJ Wolfman (9pm) THE ELEPHANT – The Buzz and DJ G-Rillz THE GOODY – Ch@t Room THE LION HOTEL – live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL – Tavern Bar: Lucas Day (4.45pm) Two Hard Basket (9pm) Chrysler Bar: Pelamama (9.30pm) VICTORIA HOTEL: O’HALLORAN HILL – DJs

WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – John Earl Walker and JJ Fields (9pm) WHITEHORSE INN – karaoke with Ally & Co WINDSOR HOTEL – karaoke (9pm) WOODCROFT TAVERN – Alternator (8.30pm) ZHIVAGO – Skream DJs: Terrence, Scott Holder and Anthony

Saturday 19th ALMA TAVERN – MetroRetro ARCHER HOTEL – Downstairs: Jaki J. Upstairs: Bongo Madness with DJs Ed Law and Scotty (10pm) ARKABA HOTEL – Top Room: Viva Latino Salsa Dancing (8.30pm) Lounge Bar: Nam Tran (6pm) Heidy De Ruyter (8pm) BARTLEY TAVERN – Eleven (8pm) BOTANIC BAR – Sanji, Brad Sawyer and Tom Wilson BRIDGEPORT HOTEL – karaoke with Gemma BUSHMAN HOTEL: GAWLER – DJ CAMEO BAR – After Hours with DJs DrDamage and guests CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Pure Blondie: The Blondie Tribute Show CROWN & ANCHOR – The Trails, Woe, Koral and Surviving Sharks plus DJ Azz CUMBERLAND HOTEL: GLANVILLE – karaoke with Nicole (8pm) DRAGONFLY – rotating DJs playing techno, house, disco and everything in between DUKE OF YORK – DJ Mitchy Burnz, DJ Parry, DJ Skinny B and MC Scotty ED CASTLE – Plus One Saturdays with live bands and party DJs (9pm) ELECTRIC CIRCUS – Arcade Disco with resident DJs Junior, Dancespace and friends

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GILBERT STREET HOTEL – DJ MARKY POLO (8PM) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Main Room: 1974 AD. Front Bar: Pub Scrabble GRACE EMILY HOTEL – The Satellites GRAND BAR – Destination Saturdays with DJs and MCs GRENFELL 110 – Triumvirate Ents presents: Weekly Summer Sessions featuring DJs Ragz, Jesse Proverbs and John Spencer and Daly (10pm) HACKNEY HOTEL – DJ HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Live & Loud presents Animal House HIGHWAY – DJ Griff (9pm)

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MORPHETT ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Boris Loves To Boogie NORWOOD HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mental As Anything (8pm) OLD SPOT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rock The Boss (10pm) ORIENTAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beej PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Harry & The Hitmen PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wild Ones RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Adelaideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best cover bands RED SQUARE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJs Marek, Law, Dub Drop DJs, Decker, Bollocks, Krispy, Shawty, Capital D, DV8 and Jazz plus MCs Skippy and Dylan ROCKET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Bananas: Track Team and Japeye SANDBAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; requests with DJs

SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SONIC DIVAS (8PM) SLUG â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Clearway SPACE THEATRE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sessions featuring The Baker Suite with special guests (9.30pm) ST PETERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CATHEDRAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil (8pm) 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 THE ELEPHANT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Alien 8 and DJ G-Rillz THE LION HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; live entertainment TONSLEY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Smooth Talk (9pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dino Jag Duo (8.30pm) TOWER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Theo VALLEY INN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke VICTORIA HOTEL: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;HALLORAN HILL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rumours WALKERS ARMS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DJ Sessions (9pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Beggars (9pm) WINDSOR HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Twenty Flight Rock WOODCROFT TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; karaoke (8pm) ZHIVAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; High Heels DJs: Chaps, Bottle Rockets, Ryley and Gumshoe

Sunday 20th ALMA TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday School BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dave Hunt BOTANIC BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Eric The Falcon BRAHMA LODGE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Emerald (4pm) CROWN & ANCHOR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday Rubdown

Sat Jan 19 The Gov 1974AD DOCKSIDE TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Leo (1pm) DOG & DUCK â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sneaky Sundays with Jak Morris DUCK INN: COROMANDEL VALLEY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Russell Stewart ED CASTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Beer Garden: Acoustic Sundays (2pm) ESPLANADE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Redline EXETER ON RUNDLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Matt & Naomi

GILBERT STREET HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SWEET BABY JAMES & SOUR ROB EYERS (2PM) GLENELG SURF CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; La Mar Sundays featuring Irie Knights (3pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Main Room: Australian Clowns GRACE EMILY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Vic Conrad & The First Third with Kyp Zonkafeller and Wireheads GRAND BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bands, DJs and MCs HIGHBURY HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paul Stubbings HIGHLANDER HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunday Sessions plus Poker 888 double header free register (2.30pm) $10 buy in (6.30pm) HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NPL Poker (6.30pm) LAKES RESORT HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Georgy K LORD MELBOURNE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Let It Roll MARINA SUNSET BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sunset Sessions featuring live acoustic music MARION CULTURAL CENTRE PLAZA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; local artists (1pm) MARS BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; VJK classic video hits MICK Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SHEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cry Wolf OAKS PLAZA PIER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pier One Bar: Dino Jag Acoustic Duo ORIENTAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Slyde PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tom J Williams PARA HILLS COMMUNITY CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Five Sided Circle RAMSGATE HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; acoustic session (4pm) Tom Kurzel & Ed Trainor fortnightly rotation (7.30pm) SAILMASTER TAVERN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Justin Parker

The Guide // SEACLIFF BEACH HOTEL – ACOUSTIC SOLOISTS SEMAPHORE PALAIS – Kopy Catz SEMAPHORE WORKERS CLUB – The Flyers SOMERSET HOTEL – Horizon (3pm) SUGAR – Mods, Driller and Nu Jeans TAP INN HOTEL: KENT TOWN – Acoustic Sessions THE LION HOTEL – Andrew Hayes (2.30pm) DJ Junior (5.45pm) Fast Love (7pm) TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Acoustic Reign (2pm) VIRGINIA NURSERY – Gerry O WELLINGTON HOTEL: WELLINGTON – Sunday Sessions: live music on the banks of the Murray (3pm) WEST THEBBY HOTEL – karaoke with Margi & Shaggy (8.30pm) WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – The Fiddle Chicks and Gypsy Kat (4pm) ZHIVAGO – Black Cherry DJs: Anthony, Capital D and Krispy

Monday 21st AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia BARTLEY TAVERN – Complete Trivia BOATHOUSE TAVERN: TAPEROO – Complete Trivia BRIDGEWAY HOTEL – Complete Trivia BULL & BEAR – Muso’s Jam (8pm) CROWN & ANCHOR – Brenton Manser and Sasha Louise EMBASSY HOTEL – karaoke EXETER ON RUNDLE – Todd Sibbin Band GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Billy Bob’s BBQ Jam HOTEL ROYAL: TORRENSVILLE – Complete Trivia PARAFIELD GARDENS COMMUNITY CLUB – Complete Trivia RHINO ROOM – One Mic Stand open mic comedy ROYAL OAK HOTEL: NTH ADELAIDE – Jam Night (8pm)

S-BAR – karaoke SUGAR – Big Bubba and Eric The Falcon THE LION HOTEL – Brian Ruiz with Troy Loakes and Paul Vallen TOWER HOTEL – Complete Trivia WHEATSHEAF HOTEL – Coma Summer Sessions featuring Sam Leske and Aaron McCoullough Quartet (8pm)

Tuesday 22nd AUSSIE INN HOTEL – Complete Trivia BOTANIC BAR – Ash Wilson CAVAN HOTEL – Complete Trivia CROWN & ANCHOR – DJs Stevie & Duncan DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Irish Sessions (8pm) EXETER ON RUNDLE – Bitches Of Zeus DJs GASLIGHT TAVERN – The Blues Lounge hosted by Ron Davidson & Trevor Graham (8pm) GOVERNOR HINDMARSH – Front Bar: Adelaide Ukulele Appreciation Society: Strumming & Picking Night GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Pub Cinema HOTEL METRO – Radio Drive, Matt Vecchio, Joseph Moore, Antoniacoustic plus open mic (8pm) MARION HOTEL – 888 Poker (6.30pm) PARADISE HOTEL – Memory Lane Trivia PJ O’BRIENS – Davy T’s Music Trivia (7.30pm) SUGAR – CU Next Tuesday with Sonny Side-Up and Driller THE COVE TAVERN – Complete Trivia THE GOODY – Complete Trivia THE LION HOTEL – Acoustic Sessions TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – Trivia Tuesday (7pm) VINE INN: NURIOOTPA – Complete Trivia WHITMORE HOTEL – Acoustic Raw Jam WINDSOR HOTEL – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

Wednesday 23rd ARKABA HOTEL – Salsa Classes (6pm) BOTANIC BAR – Gemma CENTRAL DISTRICTS FOOTBALL CLUB – Complete Trivia CHALLA GARDENS HOTEL – Complete Trivia CHRISTIES BEACH HOTEL – Complete Trivia COLONNADES TAVERN – Memory Lane Trivia (12.30pm)) CROWN & ANCHOR – Geek with DJ Tr!p DANIEL O’CONNELL HOTEL – Dan’s Open Mic Night (7.30pm) pm) DRAGONFLY BAR & DINING – Bento (What’s in Yo’ Box?!) ?!)

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

FORRESTERS & SQUATTERS ARMS HOTEL – DYNOMITE WITH DJ ALICE GLENELG FOOTBALL CLUB – KG’s Complete Trivia via GRACE EMILY HOTEL – Brenton Manser with Sasha ha March Caitlin Lesiuk HIGHLANDER HOTEL – Sports Bar: 888 Poker (7.30pm) Dining: Complete Trivia (7.30pm) HIGHWAY – The Combi Room HQ – Flashdance JETTY BAR – karaoke KENSINGTON HOTEL – Ukulele Night (7pm) MICK O’SHEA’S – Celtic Connection PORTLAND HOTEL – karaoke with Shaggy (9pm) SEAFORD HOTEL – karaoke with Suzanne (8.30pm) m) SLUG ‘N LETTUCE BRITISH PUB – karaoke with Margi (7.30pm) SUGAR – Mixed Tape with Lauren Rose, Ferris Mular ar and Mr Whiskas THE LION HOTEL – Proton Pill TONSLEY HOTEL – quiz night TORRENS ARMS HOTEL – DJs Ryley and Dylan Sanders (8pm) TOWER TAVERN: RENMARK – Complete Trivia WORLDSEND HOTEL – live music

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Sightseers Ben Wheatley is a lucky bloke, as in a rather unhealthy British film industry (and in less than 10 years) he’s worked on TV (including a joke doco on Steve Coogan), contributed shorts to anthology features, written and filmed his own scripts, edited for the big and small screen and directed four films.

And we’re here to discuss the third: the murderously black comedy Sightseers.

I was offered Sightseers when I finished [first film as director] Down Terrace, and I knew that Kill List was going to be next, and I knew that Kill List was going to be dark, and a horror film,” he explains, “and so what I wanted to do was to line something up that was going to be the opposite of it... And yes, so Sightseers was dark, but its intentions were to be funny, whereas Kill List’s intentions were to be horrible.

“You know, when you make horror movies it’s all about diminishing returns, and when you’ve made something really extreme it’s like, well, where do you go now? We were relieved, after Kill List, to be doing something lighter.”

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Which is not necessarily to say that Sightseers is necessarily ‘light’.

“No, that’s true... The script had been kicking around for about eight years. Alice and Steve [Lowe and Oram, the stars of the film and its screenwriters] had originally done it as a standup routine, a sort of comedy/sketch thing as a duo, and someone had seen that and convinced them to develop it into a film treatment.”

Ben also admits that there’s little point in trying not to give away the main ‘spoiler’ in the film: that Steve’s character Chris is actually a serial killer who takes Alice’s Tina on a genuinely bloody caravan holiday.

“We kind of thought that, you know, what are people going to think the movie’s about?

What’s the byline in the cinema pages in the newspaper going to say? It’s going to say ‘serial-killing holiday comedy’! It’s not like a big ‘reveal’, that he’s a murderer, and even if it was then it’s given away by the film’s posters…

So yeah, I wouldn’t worry too much about that. If you don’t want to spoil it then fine, but there are secrets in every movie, and in the UK, and on the posters here, it’s as plain as day what’s going to happen in it - but that shouldn’t stop you enjoying it.”

Is it also something of a satire on the whole notion of ‘Englishness’? “There were questions when we started out doing it about the English thing. But I would say that, you know, as I’m English! I mean, if I started out saying that

this was a satire of my own country, and who I am, then I’d be in a very dangerous place… If people want to take that up as one of the film’s grander themes then that’s great, but it was never originally my intention.”

He also notes that the worst part of making any movie in the UK countryside is that, regardless of budgetary or any other practical concerns, “it just rains an awful lot!”.

Wheatley hasn’t been idle since Sightseers wrapped, and he’s keen to talk about his contribution to a forthcoming anthology film called The ABCs Of Death, which features quick, nasty ‘chapters’ from 26 directors or codirecting teams (including Australia’s Andrew Traucki of The Reef and Black Water, Adam Wingard of V/H/S, Noboru Iguchi of The Machine Girl, Lee Hardcastle of the plasticineanimated short T Is For Toilet, and so on).

“My bit only goes for about a minute. We got together with some of the cast and crew of Down Terrace and Kill List and we just went out into the woods and shot something. It was really good fun… It was basically a vampire thing [called U Is For Unearthed], and I don’t know if I’ll ever get to make a vampire film otherwise, so that was good.”

And, while we’re at it, what’s his almost-completed fourth feature, A Field In England, all about?

“It’s an English Civil War drama, and it’s in black and white, and it’s also about magic and psychedelic mushrooms.”

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Ben’s Back To Basics Ben Wheatley’s two earlier titles are mentioned rather often in this interview, but what exactly are they all about?

Down Terrace (2009, MA): A violently comedic gangster movie that more than hints at Ben’s eventual interest in scary stuff. And, like Sightseers, it’s a movie where, no matter how he might deny it in retrospect, the intention is obviously to mock and satirise the sheer Englishness of it all.

Kill List (2011, R): A hard-to-discuss, relentlessly grim mixture of hitman drama, Satanic worship and conspiracy theorising, this one’s notable for its unfashionable willingness to get extremely dark without the faintest trace of silly, offthe-hook, we-didn’t-mean-it-guv humour.

Look for it now on DVD - if you dare.

WHAT: Sightseers WHERE: Mercury Cinema WHEN: Until Sat Feb 16

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Compliance (MA) Writer/director/coproducer Craig Zobel’s deeply uncomfortable, semi-basedon-fact low-budgeter is a disquieting experience, with a deliberately bland look, unfamiliar actors and an unnerving intimacy, adding up to a film that’s provoked very strong audience reactions.

It’s a busy day in an Ohio fast-food chicken outlet, and middle-aged, by-the-book manager Sandra (Ann Dowd, the best-known player here, perhaps) has already had disasters with the freezers and bacon orders when a call comes through from a policeman (Pat Healy), who says that young Becky (Dreama Walker) has stolen from a customer’s handbag while serving at the front counter. Sandra finds this hard to believe (although she and Becky do have a somewhat combative relationship), but she nevertheless takes her charge to a back room and,

Quick Flicks with instructions from the unseen law enforcer, searches Becky’s possessions and clothes, and, sure enough, Becky is soon naked but for an apron, her co-workers are turning against her and procedure is being ruthlessly followed.

About halfway through Zobel’s film, he makes it clear (no spoilers necessary) that Dowd isn’t talking to an actual detective, and that Healy’s ‘Officer Daniels’ is actually a complete stranger who’s simply doing this for fun (and not sexual fun, it seems). And we wonder: would we fall for such a trick? Why cave in to someone who merely says that they’re a figure of authority?

And just how dangerous can it be to so unquestioningly follow the rules?

Now showing as part of Mercury Cinema’s Summer Scoops.

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

The Jacob’s Creek Outdoor Cinema’s offering on Fri Jan 18 is King Kong (PG), so check out jacobscreek.com or their Facebook page for details.

Monsters Inc 3D Selected Cinemas

Pixar’s celebrated classic Monsters Inc (PG) has been re-released in a 3D format, so look for it at your fave cinema now.

Opel Moonlight Cinema Botanic Park

Dirty Dancing (M) is just one Opel Moonlight Cinema offering in the coming week, so check out all other details at moonlight.com.au.

Anton Corbijn: Inside Out (M) Director Klaartje Quirijns’ documentary, shot between 2008 and 2011, is an attempt to study the life and work of the famed photographer and filmmaker Corbijn, although it also frequently proves an attempt by the man himself to be unstudied. Corbijn’s prestigious professional life is detailed: early on longtime colleagues U2 (who else?) turn up for a rather drab session where the quartet poses against an Irish wall, and Bono offers a cheesy speech about how he and Corbijn are both interested “in light”; admirers talk of him in breathless tones, and we see past portraits of Clint Eastwood and others; and late on his two efforts as director, the B+W Joy Division biopic Control and the dour, George Clooney-starring drama The American, are discussed. However, these sequences alternate with moments that supposedly capture Anton’s personal life, including: dinner with his sister (who cries as she remembers how they bonded after the death of their parents); an appointment on the therapist’s couch, although such a potentially intimate highlight reveals little except that he finds social engagements difficult (well, duh); and lengthy interludes where he stares into space, and you wonder if he’s pondering some fascinating new project - or he just can’t think of what to say to Quirjins’ camera.

Perhaps enlightening enough for diehard fans, there’s, in the end, perhaps not really enough here to ensure that you come away thinking that you ‘get’ Corbijn - but that’s okay, as it seems that he barely ‘gets’ himself.

Now showing as part of Mercury Cinema’s Summer Scoops.

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You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (M) Made before Midnight In Paris and To Rome With Love but lost in his late-70s flurry of activity, writer/director (but not star) Woody Allen’s multi-character piece is again set in London and explores his favourite subjects in familiar ways: relationships (especially poisonous ones), creativity and getting old. Two married couples create four interconnecting plot threads: Helena (Gemma Jones), the most likeable character here, is shocked when her husband Alfie (Anthony Hopkins, slightly sleepwalking) leaves her, and takes romantic advice from a fraud psychic (Pauline Collins); Alfie finds himself driven crazy by the dim young Cockney ‘floozy’ he ends up with, Charmaine (Lucy Punch, a little embarrassing), who takes over his life; Helena’s arty daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) also resents her husband Roy ( Josh Brolin), a former literary wunderkind who still hasn’t turned out his second novel after decades and, as their bond sours further, she’s drawn to her boss Greg (Antonio Banderas); and Roy, in the thread here that’s most complicated and hard to believe, both steals a friend’s brilliant manuscript and chases neighbour Dia (Freida Pinto), who doesn’t seem to mind that he’s a miserable bastard.

Meaner-spirited than many Allen outings of late, and with some of his dubious women characters (although Helena is so nice she rather makes up for Punch’s over-brassy performance), this is still mostly enjoyable enough, with particularly fine work from Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto in a pretty thankless role. Is she the one the curious title refers to?

Mad Dog Bradley

Gangster Squad (MA) Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer blends the gritty criminal underworld of post WWII Los Angeles with the glamour of Old Hollywood in the dramatised story of Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), a Mafia kingpin intent on owning LA in the 1940s. One of the few men Cohen can’t buy is the straight and narrow Sgt O’Mara ( Josh Brolin) who, on request from the chief of police (nice to see Nick Nolte on the good side of the law), recruits a persevering cop from the slums, an old-fashioned gunslinger (Robert Patrick), a technical genius (Giovanni Ribisi) and a cocky sergeant with questionable connections (Ryan Gosling), to form the top secret ‘Gangster Squad’ charged with bringing Cohen down.

Respectfully postponed after the Aurora theatre shooting, Gangster Squad comes to us four months later than originally intended, and without a potentially traumatising scene involving a cinema shootout. The final product looks great, with a fantastic cast (Emma Stone provides a little gender balance), glitzy retro sets and inspired cinematography from Dion Beebe (Memoirs Of A Geisha). The big letdown is Will (Castle) Beall’s script, which features a humour drier than a Prohibition-era martini, but otherwise offers nothing more than trite dialogue and a tissue-thin plot.

A visual triumph, but a cerebral failure, Gangster Squad is a great ‘sit down, switch off ’ film, with lots of fancy guns and just a bit of leg, but check your need for heavy details and historical accuracy at the door. And leave the violin case at home.

Kat McCarthy

Opening But Unrated This Is 40 (MA), writer/director/ co-producer Judd Apatow’s follow-up to his Knocked Up, stars Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann (AKA Mrs Apatow), Jason Segel, Megan Fox, Charlene Yi, Chris O’Dowd, Albert Brooks, John Lithgow and Apatow kiddies Maude and Iris.

Road Movie Mobile Cinema Various Locations

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Rottofest Comedy Night & Summer Scoops Mercury Cinema

The Mercury Cinema’s 2013 season of ‘Summer Scoops’ continues until Mon Feb 17, with 17 flavour-filled films on offer including Anton Corbijn: Inside Out and Compliance (reviewed here), Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir and Sightseers (reviewed last week), the return of 2012 faves (including I Am Eleven and The Master) and more. And it all kicks off with Rottofest, a night of comedy featuring shorts and local talents, on Fri Jan 18 at 6.30pm, so check out everything you need to know at mercurycinema.org.au and watch this space.

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with Miranda Freeman

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Gilbert Street Hotel

Food Review

Photos by Andre Castellucci / andrec.net

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by Paul Woo

WHAT: Gilbert Street Hotel WHERE: 88 Gilbert St, Adelaide WHEN: Mon – Wed 11am – 10pm, Thu 11am – 11pm, Fri – Sat 11am – 1.30pm & Sun 11am – 10pm INFO: 8231 9909

Barrio Reveals Vendor Line-Up

Local Libations Diagnosed by your new world doctor Shane A Ettridge. Proudly available at The Kings.

Adelaide Festival’s super-popular late-night club Barrio will return this March, bringing with it a whole new batch of bars and vendors for you to feed your face with while basking in the festival period. Let’s take a look at who’ll be dishing up this year.

Oliver’s Taranga Fiano 2012 McLaren Vale

Neon Lobster Following their triumphant debut last year, the clever boys behind The Happy Motel are back for 2013 with their overtly Mexicanthemed taqueria Neon Lobster. Last year they made names for themselves with their amazing upkeep of fresh fish tostadas, goats’ curd quesadillas and pork al pastor tacos.

We’re excited to see what these bright young chefs have on the menu this year.

Cibo The red Cibo gelati stand will return this year to provide patrons with much-needed detours of caffeine and sugar.

Smooth Revolution Smooth Revolution will wheel on in this year to bring you fresh fruit juice made by pedal power when your liver needs a pickme-up.

The crew at the Gilbert Street Hotel are an adaptable bunch, having spent the past few months working around a building site in their backyard. While most establishments would shut up shop during renovations the Gilbert staff managed to work out of a temporary kitchen set up in shipping containers while their former beer garden and kitchen were demolished and rebuilt. The results have been worth the wait, the pub now featuring a new wooden-clad outdoor dining area with detailed metal feature panels and a wall covered in fake lawn, as well as a shiny new kitchen with all the bells and whistles.

With regular live music acts, a brilliant wine list that features a changing list of local drops and a range of boutique beers from across the country, the Gilbert Street is best known for its award winning MSA sirloin burger – voted best in Adelaide for a few years running. Naturally I had to give this one a go and while it seems like more of a glorious steak sandwich than a burger it’s no wonder it has had tongues wagging.

The kitchen clearly knows their meat, with other beasty options including a dry-aged Murray grey scotch fillet, a veal rib eye and the open range venison fillet. These are all featured in the main section of the menu but for those of us who prefer not to overindulge there are smaller options available from the “small plates” menu, of which the trio of sliders is a definite winner; three mini burgers including grilled barramundi with olive tapenade and lettuce, Wagyu beef with cheese and pickles and my favourite, pork belly with apple and aioli. Their soft tacos filled with spiced shredded lamb shoulder are a tasty bite-sized treat and I can also recommend the zucchini fries coated in a parmesan crust and served with a rich tomato sugo.

The only downside to the refurbishment is that they don’t seem to have gained much additional seating space (with the kitchen extended into the outdoor area) but this will no doubt be worth the sacrifice as it means more elbow room for the chefs to work their culinary magic.

Veggie Velo Bike-drawn Veggie Velo will join the party this year offering some very sexy vegetarian including haloumi and quinoa burgers and salads.

The Vendor With his mobile wood oven in tow, The Vendor will be serving up the finest Argentinean, Asian and more from his wheeled playground of fire.

The Bars And finally, the most important part of Barrio? The bars. This year punters will be able to choose from five themed bars

with each offering a different variety of spirit. Cocktails will be plentiful at the part volcano, part bar Crack-a-to-a, whereas you’ll find a stronger nip at Dusty Boots Bourbon Bar and sweeter spirits at Candy Bar. For traditionalists, there will also be beer and wine at Coopers Bar. Us? You’ll find us parked at Gringo’s giving the shelf of Don Julio tequila a run for its money.

WHAT: Barrio WHERE: Hajek Plaza, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide WHEN: Thu – Sun throughout Adelaide Festival from 9pm – late ENTRY: $5 at the door

In the world of wine marketing, the current vintage is always a great vintage.

Thankfully for booze merchants, s, all of our fair state in 2012 won’t make ake a liar out of any of them. Meanwhile, hile, down in the Vale the hardworking ng folk at Oliver’s Taranga (Corrinna nna Wright is the winemaker while her husband bashes out beer under the Swell Beer Co label) have taken full advantage of last year’s near-perfect conditions and pumped out a cracking little fiano for us to throw back as the mercury rises. The nose is fresh and full, lemon zest and a slight nuttiness are extremely inviting. These citrus notes are supported front palate with an impressive balance of creaminess and subtle acid giving this the clever mid bodied tipple decent length. It screams seafood, so a decent whack of kingfish and the smooth soulful tunes of Dr John should be on the money here. Cheers.

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Stars // Aries 21.03/20.04 Even though life is slowing you down, you still have your sense of humour. The less flippant raucousness and more existential chuckles show the resilient nature of your spirit.

With Mars in Aquarius, freedom will be uppermost in your mind. Loosen your shackles.

Pluto has been turning the Earth upside down. Though life might seem to have been putting you into a spin – it’s really just some spiritual, psychological and cosmic gardening that’s been going on. He has been turning the soil to make it ripe for replanting. Feel renewed.

Sagittarius 22.11/21.12 As the sun takes his court into Capricorn, it’s time for all Sagittarians to stop, have a rest and a drink. Having been galloping for months, you have worked up a lather of sweat and a ferocious appetite.

Let someone give you a good brushing. Soak up some love.

Be at rest.

Capricorn 22.12/19.01 The sun, moon, Mercury, Venus and Pluto are now all within your sign. That is half of all the planets. There’s a planetary powwow going on in your backyard. It being a new moon, fresh shoots of love, insight, integration and renewal are already starting to show.

Leo 23.07/22.08 Relationship is served by robust individuality. Delight in another person’s capacity to be themselves; in their capacity to direct and produce their own movie. Though it may throw you to let go of the reins, know that it’s right to allow another to empower themselves.

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Krush Klinic Live street art and hip hop music meets fine dining and wine next Sun Jan 27 as part of Longview Estate’s annual Krush Klinic. Against the backdrop of the stunning Adelaide Hills, four of Australia’s most exciting street artists will create large-scale aerosol works during the day in a battle to become the winning label artwork for Longview’s premium 2010 ‘The Piece’ shiraz. This year’s competing artists include Sydney’s Phibs, Mexican-born master Peque and SA underground stalwarts Tiff and Stoops. As the paintbrushes fly there will be DJs spinning live tunes and an American-style barbecue on the go, which will include dishes like

slow-cooked pork shoulder, ribs, jambalaya, three bean chilli and mac and cheese. If you’re worried about driving while enjoying tipples all day, there are breakfast and bus packages to and from the winery currently available from the HWY, the Lion and the Colonist. Head to their website at thepiece.com.au for more information.

WHAT: Krush Klinic WHERE: Longview Winery, 154 Pound Rd, Macclesfield WHEN: Sun Jan 27 from 12pm – 7pm INFO: thepiece.com.au

Last year’s winner Beastman

Aquarius 20.01/18.02 You aren’t going to be put off, no matter the weather. Mars is driving you on towards your ruling idea with all the steady power of an old tractor.

Once you get something in mind, there’s not much going to stop you. Steer clear of obsession. Be willing to reflect occasionally.

Virgo 23.08/22.09 With Mercury in Capricorn, all that is ‘nuts and bolts’ practical in you is reinforced tenfold. This holds the potential to help you get strongly on track, though there are a couple of things to be aware of. Don’t get too serious - and remember that flexibility adds strength.

with Miranda Freeman

Scorpio 24.10/21.11

Cancer 22.06/22.07 The moon is new. She’s a tiny silver sliver – a fresh start - in Capricorn. Within every tender, emotionally literate Cancerian is a lonesome Capricornian cow-person, riding a solitary path up a high mountain. Bank on creativity and on your capacity to act on your own.

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Though there are numerous planets in earthy Capricorn, which is often a bit of a downer for airy Librans, this time you aren’t fazed. Hold your position, even when others are making a lot of racket.

The co-operative alliances you have built up, can trump noisy opposition.

Gemini 21.05/21.06 The strength that is carrying you at the moment is more to do with your soul and your intuitive sense than anything material and tangible. This may make you feel like you are floating on an ocean rather than rooted like a tree in Mother Earth. Honour your deepest wishes.

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Libra 23.09/23.10

Taurus 21.04/20.05 Venus is in Capricorn, inviting a riotous romp. Of course the more riotous your romp, the more likely it is that entrenched ideas of propriety will start making a big noise too. Somewhere in the middle of this three-ringed circus you’ll figure out what’s natural and what’s not.

with Sudhir

Pisces 19.02/20.03 The presence of five planets in Capricorn gives you the feeling that you are being held. Life is offering the kind of support that you can trust unquestioningly. It’s a new moon too, which is an invitation to look for new shoots, fresh bursts of life.

Focus on your strengths.

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Tooth & Nail

193 Victoria Square, Adelaide Visible Ink Thu Jan 17 – Sat Feb 9

22 – 28 Coromandel Place, Adelaide Vessel: An Exhibition Of Life And Death Fri Jan 25 – Sat Feb 9

You’ve probably seen Dan Withey’s commissioned artwork on various walls around Adelaide. Some of his works you might not be so familiar with, however, are pieces less large-scale and on paper rather than canvas.

This month Withey will showcase 30 of his more intimate pen and ink works as part of his latest solo show, Visible Ink. The drawings come from two previous exhibitions that took place last year entitled Unfair Navigation and Spore. All the works will be for sale with cheap prices, so if your home interior needs sprucing up, head along to the opening at Dragonfly from 6pm.

Opening: Thu Jan 17 from 6pm

Everyone loves a container. From terrariums to birdcages to Pandora’s Box to Tupperware, the idea of containment is undoubtedly a weirdly fascinating one. Six artists have embraced this with the idea that the human body itself is a container, channelling their different interpretations into a new Tooth & Nail exhibition entitled Vessel. Featuring works from Kerri Ann Wright, Melissa Grisancich, Nick Yap, Scatterbain, Vans The Omega and Hero.

Opening: Fri Jan 25 from 6pm

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with Lachlan Aird

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Cameo Release The Apartment With a name that could easily be the title of a Woody Allen film, The Apartment is leading Adelaide label Cameo’s latest collection. The girls at Australian Fashion Labels, where Cameo operates, gave Rip It Up a bit of an insight on the inspirations and looks achieved by The Apartment: “The collection was inspired by all the beautiful, bright, whimsically-coloured doors of Dublin. They ignite your imagination thinking about the beautiful eccentric homes and people hidden behind them. We have mirrored the bright colours in the fabrics and print of the collection.

The collection is bright and fresh, with sheer fabrics, lace and denim. Zips, peplum shapes and luxe golds are prominent features of the collection.”

Thankfully, The Apartment hasn’t meant that Cameo has trundled down the path of loungewear, but instead is yet again at the forefront of local fashion in term of design, texture and quality.

For stockists, contact 834108456 or visit cameothelabel.com.au.

One Small Room Croydon’s key destination for upcycled furniture, homewares and accessories, One Small Room, is the newest addition to the line of pop-up stores that have graced Ebenezer Place. This January, One Small Room will bring their special pieces from special places to the city, with the pop-up shop helping celebrate the Croyden institution’s 10th year in business. If your home needs a little more character, be sure to head in store this January to feast on their feng shui buffet.

The One Small Room Pop-Up Shop is open at Shop 20 Ebenezer Place, with the original store at 6-10 Elizabeth St, Croydon.

Pride Models’ International Model Search 2012 Winners Back on Sun Dec 2, Pride Models held an open audition to scout out their newest recruit with their International Model Search.

Last year’s winner Madison Stubbington has aready made a serious impact on the fashion world, both near and far. Rip It Up Fashion would like to congratulate Emily Pitta, who came out victorious and will now be flown to New York to meet with the world’s leading agencies. Runners-up, Claudia Reed and Katelyn Lane, will also be joining the troops at Pride, with great things expected from all the girls in 2013. Watch these faces!

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Reviews //

Culture

CD Reviews

CD Of The Week

Scottie’s Singles

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Bored Nothing

Listen Now:

Bored Nothing (Spunk)

David Bowie Where Are We Now? (Sony/Columbia)

You little wonder, little wonder you! Just when it was looking like Jareth The Goblin King’s last musical outing would be (the admittedly awesome) Extras spoof Little Fat Man With The Pug-Nosed Face, David Bowie returns from exile with a Tony Visconti-produced paean to the pair’s ‘Berlin’ albums. It was an era that saw the coked out starman existing on a milk and capsicum diet, with all remaining fridge space taken up by the gallons of Bowie wee the silly bugger was keeping on ice to ward off black magic hexes. Where Are We Now? avoids addressing the 1976 threat of piss thieves, instead delivering wistful, subtle reflections on his Berlin sanctuary. Featuring a building finale mantra akin to John Lennon’s God, it might be low-key yet the sheer surprise of Bowie’s return has shaken my reality. Put on your red shoes and dance the blues – Mr Jones is back.

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Suede Barriers

Fleetwood Mac Rumours (35th Anniversary Edition) (Warner/Rhino)

(Independent)

Oomf ! That’s the sound of England’s secondmost famous lithely androgynous, cocainesnacking, aristocratically camp and sexually explorative thin white duke being shirt-fronted by the unexpected return of the king. If it’s not bad enough that Bowie has popped up just as Brett Anderson reconvenes his ‘90s Britpop pioneers, it seems the frontman’s also forgotten that Suede’s best music has the smirking flitter of Pulp, the suburban deviance of Placebo and the literate glamour of The Smiths. Maybe Anderson fell heavily on the pavement while perving on his own reflection in a Pret-A-Manger window, since Barriers suggests the daft old rascal thinks he’s now fronting U2. Not good U2 either – the meandering and bombastic How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb-era U2. Don’t look now boys, but you’re giving me vertigo.

The Joy Formidable Cholla (Warner)

Packing more beefy punch than Tom Hardy’s uppercut in The Dark Knight Rises, Welsh trio The Joy Formidable pre-empt their sophomore album Wolf ’s Law with new single Cholla. Like Catatonia and Feeder caught in a Cwmaman mudslide, this is a gritty scramble of crunching guitars, turbulent drums and Ritzy Bryan’s vocal prowl. Apparently ‘cholla’ is an old Portuguese word for penis, but this single is rock hard proof the red dragon has awoken. Forget shirtless prog buffoons Biffy Clyro and those shockingly tainted pariahs Lostprophets – here’s a Welsh band to believe in.

Cascada The Rhythm Of The Night (Central Station)

Cascada’s overtanned, uber-blonde lead singer Natalie Horler bears a striking resemblance to Brynne Edelsten, which gives you a bit of an idea what to expect of this Eurodance cover – cheap, dumb, over-exposed trash that might have (just maybe) seemed a tad more appealing when it first blossomed back in the ‘90s.

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Infamously recorded amid a blur of incestuous bandmate rooting and powder caches to rival Guy Fawkes’ stash, Rumours’ remarkable tracks outshine the tumultuous tales of their creation even 35 years on.

Rumours sits firmly in the top 10 selling albums of all time for good

reason. Despite its familiarity, each track remains as magnificent as a full moon setting over a lake. Many of the tunes have been reimagined, recontextualised or granted new life by entertainers as diverse as Hole (post-Kurt), Bill Clinton (post-election victory) and Eva Cassidy (post-mortem) over the last three decades, but none can recreate the divergent conflagrations that rage on the original.

Whether fuelled by the wisdom of Christine McVie, the ethereal gossamer whirls of Stevie Nicks or the vengeful snarl of Lindsey Buckingham, the power of The Chain, Go Your Own Way and Songbird remain staggering. Although the live disc here offers little in the way of divergence to pique the senses (save a hint of the then-forthcoming Tusk and a few flat vocals from Nicks on Don’t Stop), the lost tracks deliver raw insight.

A pivotal counterpoint to the punk forces brewing on the other side of the Atlantic, Rumours remains a multifaceted snapshot of the ‘70s – equal parts dreamy Hollywood Boulevard flair and crumbling Sunset Boulevard tragedy.

Scott McLennan

The best bedroom musical projects instill a sense of intimacy, honesty and vulnerability, almost as if the listener has been invited for a personal knees-up inside the muso’s bedsit. It’s a tricky feat to pull off, especially considering the low-budget limitations of a home studio set-up. Or perhaps that’s the very trick to it. Either way, it’s something Melbourne musician Fergus Miller has absolutely nailed here.

At its best, Miller’s mix of intensely emotional songwriting and lo-fi production style soars high above his contemporaries.

His guitars, awash with Jesus & Mary Chain reverb and Pavement jangle, coupled with a voice as fragile and captivating as Elliott Smith, combine to great effect on the peppy Popcorn and forlorn Bliss. Yet even at its best, the album feels a touch lacking in depth. There’s no denying Miller’s delicately beautiful vocals, but they’re buried beneath such a dense layer of haze it’s hard to extricate any sort of meaning out of them.

However, that should not – and for the most part does not – take away from the excellent spread of songs on offer here. Miller refuses to sit still for long, capturing a range of moods and headspaces while never veering from the singular voice guiding the entire album. A tricky feat indeed, but one Miller’s been able to accomplish without ever leaving the comfort of his bedroom.

Jimmy Byzantine

Peter Murphy Live Review

The Governor Hindmarsh, Thu Jan 10 Review by Robert Dunstan Pics by Andreas Heuer

I, for one, was intrigued when it was announced late last year that Peter Murphy, former singer with UK art rock band Bauhaus, would be making his first ever trek to Australia to play Bauhaus classics and solo releases with his band.

Bauhaus, who had emerged in the early ’80s and can count Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails as a fan, were a band that had somehow passed me by, and as for Murphy’s nine solo albums…

Opening act Brillig, an acoustic trio specialising in dark folk music whose latest EP, Most Unlucky Of The Unlucky Deer, is sitting on top of Three D Radio’s music chart, delivered their songs to a relatively sparse audience.

They were politely received by a crowd dressed mostly in black which had continued to grow in numbers during their set.

Between Brillig and Murphy taking to the stage we were treated to an odd soundtrack that at one point had Jimmy Barnes screaming Working Class Man. It seemed rather odd at the time, but on reflection I now think it was some kind of perverse joke.

The 55-year-old Murphy then strode to the stage flanked by electric guitarist Mark

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Quick Ones

Heart

Winter People

Microwave Jenny

Fanatic

A Year At Sea

Chasing You

(Sony/Legacy)

(Hub)

(Independent)

Wow! After 40 years of music, American rock band Heart show they still have plenty of ticker, delivering another gem to follow up 2010’s Red Velvet Car. Album number 14 Fanatic draws on the life and personal experiences of Ann and Nancy Wilson, the sisters at the helm of Heart since 1974.

Recorded largely in hotel rooms and studios along the United States’ west coast, Fanatic’s title track opener rocks like a bitch, while the duet with Sarah McLachlan on the ballad Walkin’ Good is a cracker. This tune is destined for plenty of mileage as it climbs up the charts.

Heart show plenty of light and shade throughout the album experience, maintaining their rock‘n’roll edge but also taking a few well-calculated risks in offering something a little different that won’t alienate their die-hard fans but may also win over some new ones. The band kick it up a gear on Skin And Bones and A Million Miles fuses 2012 pop leanings with their trademark rock. Dear Old America stirs up a lot of emotion in relation to what soldiers see when they return home from war, while the gem Rock Deep (Vancouver) is tucked away later in the piece.

Fanatic shows Heart at their very best, proving they are just as relevant now as they ever have been.

Rob Lyon

One of the most surprising aspects of this year’s Harvest Festival line-up was the noticeable lack of Australian artists compared to the previous year’s instalment. It was even more surprising that the only wholly Australian act on the list was Sydney’s Winter People. Sure, they’d released a couple of successful singles in Gallons and Wishingbone over the past year, but having not made a major impact it seemed odd for promoters to choose such a band as the only homegrown artist.

This decision however, is well and truly justified by the group’s debut album, A Year At Sea. Grandiose and big in nature, the album makes the most of its five-part girl/ boy harmonies to create an atmospheric template for the often detailed and very clever lyricism of lead singer Dylan Baskind. Fans of The National or Augie March would find Baskind’s vocal particularly familiar. The combination of folk-infused melodies and heavy rock rhythms is wondrous at times, and gives every line more importance.

A Year At Sea largely runs on the theme of exploration, something that the band seems to fit comfortably with. Baskind’s musings are very personal, showing pride in the little things and making them feel important. My estimations were wrong: Winter People clearly do belong on the big stage.

Sam Reynolds

Ex-soccer player meets karaoke entrepreneur, they fall in love and bam!

- you’ve got yourself a band. These kids Microwave Jenny are cooking up some aromatic blends of folk and pop with a bit of love to bind it all together, bringing an overall vibrant colour to their unique sound. The gorgeous little husband and wife duo from the Central Coast of New South Wales have been embarking on some cheeky tours around Australia to promote their sounds, spreading their microwaved love to anyone that lends an ear. Not in a pub, not in a venue, but literally in random people’s backyards, totalling 20 houses in six states. How’s that for a bit of sneaky innovation?

I can confirm that the band’s moniker is a direct allusion to The Castle: give me a reference to that classic film and I’m green play-dough in your hot little hands.

Lend an earhole to the single, You Me, Backseat: it is officially the most chirpy, upbeat and innocent song about intercourse I have ever heard, so be sure to have a listen.

Chasing You sends some cheeky grins your way. It will leave you feeling fly, singing high and dancing with the birds in the sky.

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Gemini Thwaite (who also played acoustic guitar on some songs), drummer Nick Lucero and bass player Emilio China (who also occasionally played electric violin). Murphy also played a 12-string acoustic on some songs and a Nord keyboard was wheeled on at one point for him to have a go at.

Looking tanned and fit, Murphy was in fine voice and his chosen musicians were very seasoned. At one point Murphy, confirming that he is still at odds with his former bandmates, said, “If you didn’t see Bauhaus you didn’t miss anything. This band is much better.”

I have to confess to not being too familiar with Bauhaus’ songs, apart of course from Bela Lugosi’s Dead, so won’t even begin to list what was played on the night. What I can state, however, is that a lot of the now sizeable crowd, many of whom had gathered at the front of the stage, could be seen singing along to every song and immensely enjoying what was on offer. The band played a turbo-charged version of T. Rex’s Telegram Sam followed by Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and they probably did a cover of Dead Can Dance’s Severance.

Some technical issues had Murphy berating Bono (I think someone - not me - was wearing a U2 T-shirt) and an enthusiastic crowd response led to a series of encores.

Hardcore fans had been duly rewarded and those in attendance out of curiosity alone had been treated to a fine night of music from a singer and band in top form.

Various Artists 101 80s Hits Platinum Edition (EMI)

101 (authenticated) tracks cherry-picked from those awesome (?) ‘80s, this five-disc set, from John Farnham’s chart-topping You’re The Voice to The Little Heroes’ One Perfect Day, has ‘em all: dead-set classics (Talking Heads’ Road To Nowhere, Divinyls’ Science Fiction, XTC’s Generals And Majors); cheesy faves (Dead Or Alive’s You Spin Me Round (Like A Record), The Psychedelic Furs’ Love My Way, A Flock Of Seagulls’ I Ran); frequently gruesome ballads (Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time, Paul Young’s Love Of The Common People, Heart’s overblown These Dreams); one-hit wonders (Haircut 100’s Love Plus One, Matthew Wilder’s Break My Stride); and infamous ditties that should have remained in New Romantic Hell, including Shakin’ Stevens’ grisly You Drive Me Crazy, Pseudo Echo’s dire cover of Funky Town, Taylor Dayne’s eye-watering Tell It To My Heart and Haysi Fantayzee’s insanity-inducing Shiny Shiny.

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Various Artists The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (Warner)

This film appears to be under the misguided assumption that social outcasts spend their school days preparing impeccable playlists of lost ‘80s records rather than avoiding spitballs and taunts about their poo-catchers by hiding out in the home economics room. Perhaps having a fox like Emma Watson as your teen crush is the key to this progressive stance? The Perks Of Being A Wallflower’s soundtrack is a shrewd mix-CD from a high school paramour. The Innocence Mission’s Evensong sounds like the results of an exquisite Cyndi Lauper and The Cure collaboration, David Bowie’s “Heroes” doesn’t suffer its usual single edit and XTC’s scathing Dear God can still elicit a sharp intake of breath thanks to its brazen theological contempt. It’s almost as magical as Hermione herself.

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Cosmopolis

Icon / MA / 109 Mins

Shock / M / 111 Mins

New York Drawings

Crossfire Hurricane Hit And Run Pinnacle / MA / 87 Mins

Adrian Tomine / Faber / 175pp / $35

Directed by David Cronenberg almost consecutively with A Dangerous Method, this is drawn by the cult Canadian auteur from the ‘unfilmable’ Don DeLillo novel, and proves a hard movie to take in, discuss and like. The icy, constipated-looking Robert Pattinson (continuing his unusual choices outside that Twilight franchise) is the icy, constipated-looking Eric Packer, a Wall Street billionaire who decides to head through NY for a haircut, his futuristic white limo serving as a barrier to the world outside as civil unrest looms, an ‘Occupy’like movement (that utilises dead rats as their symbol) makes its presence felt and strange characters join him within for conversations about the joys of capitalism and his hopeless alienation. There’s: uneasy ex-friend Shiner ( Jay Baruchel); a mysterious adviser (Samantha Morton); an angry employee (Emily Hampshire); would-be wife Elise Shifrin (Sarah Gadon); and scarily sexy art dealer Didi Fancher ( Juliette Binoche in a mere cameo), appearing early for feral sex.

As psycho as psychological dramas get, this has strong playing from the whole cast and makes daring and even shocking statements about the ugliest aspects of contemporary life. However, and unfortunately, studies of heartlessness are usually damn heartless themselves, and this is also as cold as a motherfucker.

Mad Dog

Constructed from interviews with the 70ish Rolling Stones in 2011 (before the band’s 50th birthday in 2012), this latest in a stream of Stones-celebrating works is certainly one of the best, and even manages to dig up somehow-unseen-until-now footage from the band’s key periods. Fans will rejoice as, with the benefit of hindsight and customary good humour, the lads/ pensioners flash back upon: their youths, the initial formation of the outfit and their ascension to huge fame (as a sort of ‘anti-Beatles’, a term that still makes Keith Richards laugh); their role in getting London to ‘swing’ and their uneasiness with hippiedom; disasters including, once more, the horrors of Altamont; enormous celebrity, money and notoriety in the ‘70s during turbulent social and political times; and how they just kept on reinventing themselves and, of course, whether or not they’re ‘dinosaurs’ or ‘irrelevant’ or whatever critics might care to say. And, it must be pointed out, the only problem here is the fact that the 2011 Stones are completely unseen and that, in the end, we sometimes don’t know who’s talking, as all the members (and former bandmates Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor) now, in conversation, all sound like growly old gits.

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The Listies Do Compooters

Writer/co-producer/co-director/star Dax Shepard’s low-budget, would-be romantic ‘road movie’ is obviously intended as a hi-octane love-letter to his co-star and offscreen gal-pal Kristen Bell, and surely she wasn’t exactly flattered at being symbolically offered such a lame and cheap-looking clunker. His Charlie Bronson (!), hidden in a smalltown via witness protection and watched over by an idiot, trigger-happy cop (Tom Arnold), decides that he’s going to help get partner Annie Bean (Bell) to LA for a job interview despite all the risks, and when they roar away in one of Charles’ (and Dax’s) souped-up collector-cars (to a rerecorded version of Pure Imagination, originally from Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, for some reason) they attract the dangerous interest of a series of parties, particularly one of the former accomplices that Charles ‘squealed on’ (and he’s played by Bradley Cooper, who really should be guest-starring in a better class of nonsense than this). With Shepard’s and Bell’s big-name pals, including Jason Bateman and Beau Bridges, in embarrassing walk-on (and unpaid?) cameos, and all the grinding plot mechanics necessary to make such an absurd storyline work, this is a ridiculous ode to Shepard’s ego, and only vaguely preferable to being run over.

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The Listies (formerly known as The List Operators For Kids) are returning to town with their brand new show, The Listies Do Compooters, for the end of the school holidays.

Last in Adelaide around the same time last year with their highly successful More Fun Than A Wii, the duo’s latest offering is a crazy, mayhem-filled take on the internet world and computers in general.

Rip It Up speaks to Kelly and Higgins about the show.

“We thought if you spoke to both of us, it’d either be twice as funny or half as funny,” Kelly good-naturedly begins.

The Listies Do Compooters is a new show.

“Well it’s relatively new,” Kelly says. “It’s about 18 months old but when compared to Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet it’s quite new.

“And like all of our shows, it was fun to put together,” Higgins then suggests. “It basically comes down to Matt and I sitting together in a room with a laptop saying to each other, ‘What are we going to do?’.”

“But then it’s like when you suddenly have an idea using power tools and toilet rolls and end up racing down to Bunnings looking for a leaf blower,” Kelly says.

“So writing The Listies Do Compooters was us drinking a lot of coffee and eating chocolate frogs while sitting online looking at all the trendy things that are

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happening with computers and looking at lots of YouTube videos,” Higgins says. “And we looked at what a lot of kids were doing with the internet, which was fascinating because they are so good at it.”

“They are so much better at it than their parents,” Kelly decides. “So The Listies Do Compooters has that kind of central theme.

And during the show kids will laugh at something and then about five seconds later their parents will suddenly get it and laugh.”

The Listies enjoyed much success with previous show More Fun Than A Wii. “We were nominated for a Barry – an award named in honour of Barry Humphries – at the International Melbourne Comedy Festival,” Kelly says. “So that was pretty special because it was the first kids show to ever get nominated – there’s no award yet for a kids show – and was up against 650 other shows and only five get nominated.”

Tomine’s collection of his distinctive drawings created mostly for The New Yorker proves to be a gorgeous tome that survives its greatest problem (ie this isn’t New York!). Lacking some self-penned, self-congratulatory introduction, the author instead opens with the first of a wry series of comic-strip-type depictions of his neurotic life at the office, around the Big Apple and at home, and then we proceed into the images: the kick-off, a 1999 portrait of forgotten popsters Luscious Jackson; cool pics that originally tied-in with film reviews of Tape, Storytelling and more; wintry vistas of Central Park or summery studies of tourists milling about therein; subtle suggestions of the cultural diversity of the city, as six ‘races’ share a bench at the airport; and at least one unpublished and untitled piece, of a pissed-off-looking Batman, so that we can all rest assured that Tomine’s a nerd at heart.

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“So it was great to get that kind of nod,” Higgins adds. “But there’s now a lot of really interesting things happening worldwide with theatre for kids, including Windmill Theatre Company and Patch Theatre from Adelaide, so we’re pleased to be part of that movement.”

The Listies, who have received five star reviews at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, will next take The Listies Do Compooters across the Tasman to New Zealand.

‘We’ve been over before and done well,” Kelly says. “They like fart jokes over there as well, although Kiwi farts have funny accents.”

WHAT: The Listies Do Compooters WHERE: Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre WHEN: Wed Jan 23 until Sat Jan 26

Philosopher and author Stangroom’s latest (after other bestseller favourites including Einstein’s Riddle and Would You Eat Your Cat?) continues in his usual cerebral but most accessible style, with a wide range of conundrums, paradoxes and posers that amusingly ponder notions of belief, society, identity and (gulp!) the very nature of reality itself. Consider: ‘Can you be responsible for the unavoidable?’ (hint: just perhaps); ‘Is it necessarily wrong to eat people?’ (independent of the earlier ‘Is your neighbour a zombie?’, which is something many out there ask at one time or another); ‘Is Homo sapien a noble savage?’ (hint: no, not quite); and, finally, such mind-meddling questions as ‘Is it rational to believe in monsters under the bed?’ and (sorry to get all Matrix-ish on your arse) ‘Are we brains in vats?’. Hmm… let’s hope not, kids.

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